University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

BD+05 4868 Ab is located about 140 light years away from Earth and has a surface temperature of 1,600 deg C. Read more at ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

It’s about 2.6 times larger than Earth and nearly nine times as massive, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star.