A team of international researchers has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet that may have the right conditions ...

The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...

HD 20794 d, a planet with six times Earth's mass, orbits a sun-like star 20 light years away. Its position within the habitable zone suggests conditions that could allow liquid water to exist.

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System, and numerous exoplanets formed within our ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...