Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Irish astronomers aided ‘remarkable discovery’ of new planet - Irish astronomers were among those that made an unexpected ...

In a new breakthrough, an international team of astronomers has discovered a young planet forming around a star similar to ...

These linkups happen when several planets appear to line up in the night sky at once. Such parades are fairly common, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the ...