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

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

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so hot it glows at more than ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers have confirmed that three Earth-sized planets are orbiting two stars in the same system — a first in the history ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

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

A from Maynooth University will study how stars and planets form using a new ultraviolent telescope that launched into space last week.

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 ...