For nearly a decade, thousands of volunteers with no professional astronomy credentials have been staring at grainy infrared ...

There’s been a fierce debate over the past two decades about the status of the distant icy world of Pluto after it was ...

NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars where Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker watches a double sunset above Tatooine, ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will ...

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical ...

For four years, NASA’s planet-hunting telescope photographed the light of 2.2 million stars. The data sat in public archives, ...