Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Early on April 25, 2025, a rare triple conjunction of Venus, Saturn, and a crescent Moon will grace the morning sky. This ...

The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

While an unknown chemical process may be the source of these molecules in K2-18b’s atmosphere, the results are the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' on the fictional twin suns of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker's home ...

Scientists had previously seen hints that planets could exist in polar orbits around binary stars, for instance finding planet-forming protoplanetary disks around twin stars. However, this is the ...

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a ...

For about a decade, he and other researchers have been trying to prove that the so-called "Planet 9" exists. So far, the only evidence has come from some oddities in the orbits of small Pluto-like ...