The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers may have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sunlike star just 146 light-years away. Before you ...

Space experts have identified a potentially habitable new planet in the solar system, located around 150 light-years away. Find out more here.

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has been studied extensively ever ...

There is some bias in the way we are discovering exoplanets. The methods to confirm the existence of another world require ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Scientists have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter, offering new insight into the invisible force that holds galaxies together.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's biggest dark matter map has been released by NASA and shows an ...