Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

The breakthrough is poised to revolutionize studies of star formation, exoplanets and potentially ... enabled the team to chart extinction curves across a depth of 16,000 light years, revealing ...

There have been many claims of exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star over the years, dating all the way back to the 1960s. Barnard's Star is a red dwarf, also known as an M-dwarf, and is noticeable ...

An illustration of one of Barnard’s Star's four exoplanets. © Illustration by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard Astronomers ...

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the ...

"I do not believe we yet have convincing evidence of the presence of DMS in K2-18b's atmosphere." In 2023, debate erupted in the astronomy community about whether life could exist on an exoplanet ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered an exoplanet that defies the usual pace of time. WASP-121b, located 900 light-years away, has a year that lasts only 30 hours, 10 times faster than ...