The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former ...

Some days, Dr. Clarissa Do Ó considers herself less of an astrophysicist and more of a “paparazzi for the universe.” As a ...

Some exoplanets absorb almost every ray of visible light that reaches them. Their darkness is revealing unexpected clues about the strange atmospheres surrounding distant worlds.

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...

Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet's formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich ...

Astronomers have reported evidence of a massive possible exomoon in the distant CD-35 2722 system, where one giant object ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick have identified the first second-generation planet ever found around a ...

Scientists detect radio signals from an exoplanet 63 light-years away, revealing a magnetic field far stronger than Earth’s.

Learn more about interstellar travel and what it would look like to travel to Proxima Centauri.

A brown dwarf orbits the star, while the newly detected object appears to circle the brown dwarf, creating an unusual ...

Dr. Clarissa Do Ó of Caltech receives a 2026 L’Oréal For Women in Science award for her research into detecting Earth-like ...