Look to the eastern sky late Thursday, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough coronagraph that could finally allow us to see Earth-like exoplanets hidden in the ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Researchers have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

Heidi Klum knows how to make an impression—and recently, she turned heads while putting her legs on full display in a playful new photo. On April 14, the former America's Got Talent star, 51, took to ...

An AI algorithm designed to look for planetary systems that could host Earth-like, habitable zone planets, has found 44 candidates.

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

The end was quite dramatic, as evidenced by the aftermath documented by Webb. The orbiting telescope, which was launched in 2021 and became operational in 2022, observed hot gas likely forming a ring ...