Remember those claims that signs of life may have been detected on an exoplanet? Scientists have been skeptical about the claim, and now new, independent research is adding to that skepticism.

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

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A planet 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly falling apart has been spotted by astronomers after they detected an ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...