After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

Astronomers have discovered over 5,800 exoplanets, unveiling strange new worlds and the possibility of life beyond Earth. Explore the latest breakthroughs in our cosmic quest to understand the ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The satellite is operated and run by Blue Skies Space, a U.K.-space science data company and was launched aboard SpaceX’s ...

Europe's Vega C rocket launched for the sixth time ever today (Dec. 1), sending a powerful Earth-observation satellite to ...

Kappa Tucanae A, 70 light-years away, hosts dust hotter than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit that should not survive. Astronomers ...