Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Sunita Williams' astrological chart illuminates her success as an astronaut, emphasizing traits such as intelligence, ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

Discover how the James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of gas giants in the HR 8799 system, revealing carbon ...

Earth's 1,600 km/h rotation doesn't make us land elsewhere after jumping because we move with it, per Newton's Law of Motion, ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.