HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Researchers believe super-Earths orbiting long-lived orange dwarf stars may offer better conditions for life than Earth.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a giant gas planet that has already lost more than one-third of its mass since its ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

Solve the math puzzle from our February 2026 issue, where we plan a return passage for a robotic explorer that doesn’t want ...

Stargazers will in one week have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...