Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find could change how we understand our solar system and the universe itself. Is ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

NASA has finally confirmed the existence of a new exoplanet that is 50 per cent larger than Jupiter and about a tenth of the ...

Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA's EXCITE mission. As a scientist ...

This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

An international team with Swiss participation has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring in a nearby galaxy.

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...