"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

When the object now known as 1I/ʻOumuamua streaked through the inner Solar System in 2017, it instantly rewrote the playbook ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...

Most big game may have disappeared from West Africa, but there are still plenty of exciting – and little known – creatures hidden away ...

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Scientists have identified phenomena in deep space that can act as naturally occurring “space weather stations” far beyond our solar system.

Planet 9 sits at the edge of scientific imagination, promising either an epic expansion of the Solar System or a lesson in ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...