Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

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

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. The planet is five ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

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

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...