One of Griaule’s most famous (and controversial) claims was our ostensible knowledge of Sirius B, the companion star to Sirius. Invisible to the naked eye, Griaule found oral traditions describing ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Wilmore and Williams, both former U.S. Navy test pilots, expected to remain in orbit for about 10 days on the mission, which was called Crew Flight Test (CFT). The main goal was to show that Starliner ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

For a decade, a radio signal has puzzled astronomers. Every two hours, a pulse from the constellation Ursa Major travels ...