More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

A new set of images taken by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope ... public's first real look from Kepler at the exciting star system, which could be orbited by at least one habitable planet.

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

It was a huge one, in Chicago; it seemed as big as space itself ... at that epic black domed sky and thought the stars and planets were real. I felt in sync with them, almost part of them ...