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

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that time ...

During July, the morning sky hosts three bright planets, each following its own path.

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...