By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Now, new data show that this is a world like nothing seen before. Using cutting-edge instruments on the Telescopio Nazionale ...

"Could Life Be Hiding on Kepler 69c? Explore the potential for extraterrestrial organisms on a distant, Earth-like planet." ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

A new study led by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has revealed that planets ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that the Solar System is filled with oceans of liquid water ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...