At 6 light-years from Earth, a discovery is shaking up astronomy. A new planet, Barnard b, has been detected orbiting a red ...

An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that ...

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct ...

"Detecting an exomoon would be quite extraordinary, and because of Io, we know that a volcanic exomoon is possible." ...

Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the ...

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

The first “failed star” ever discovered has been a weird outlier since it was discovered 20 years ago. New observations show ...

WHAT looks like a grisly, sun-scorched human face has been found half-buried in the sand on Mars by Nasa’s Perseverance rover. An image taken by the rover in September shows a sandy face ...

It is a major goal of astronomical research to find planets other than Earth that might be suitable for sustaining life.