In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life.

On the evening ofOctober 5, 2025, the night sky will offer a captivating sight: Saturn, the ringed giant of our solar system, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French ...

You won't need a telescope to see this supermoon. Skygazers, get ready to head outside and spot the supermoon next Monday. The full moon will appear on Oct. 6. You shouldn't have any trouble seeing it ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

The idea of spending my evenings along the river peering into the heavens sounded fun, so I added a Hestia to my pack. Here’s ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

A game-changing instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our Solar System by ...