Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

In a groundbreaking development, NASA has announced a new alloy that could be the key to unlocking ultra-stable space ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...