The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have spotted a world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed lemon, a ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have finally watched a star consume one of its own planets, catching in real time a ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...

The final ESA/Webb Picture of the Month feature for 2025 showcases a festive-looking region filled with glowing clouds of gas ...

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

Gaia back-tracing points to 3 suspect star systems—G 137-55/54, AT Mic, and a G3V candidate. What fits, what fails.