Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

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

A team of astronomers took an actual photo of the first-known baby planet discovered in a gap of a star's protoplanetary disk.

Old rocket parts and decommissioned satellites are whizzing around in low Earth orbit, where they risk colliding with the ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Petit Planet is the next game from Genshin Impact developer MiHoYo, and it sure does look like an Animal Crossing clone.

A second deep space antenna opened in a tiny monastic town in Western Australia could help unlock the secrets of the universe ...

Times are a-changing, and some household items that were found in every '80s and '90s home are rarely seen today -- we're ...

The Cincinnati Observatory is bringing together meteorite collectors to talk about their prizes and how anyone can find space ...

Today, astronomers have at least a dozen techniques to seek and detect planets orbiting other stars, and have turned up thousands. But 51 Peg will always be special since it was our first. Not only ...

Space weather forecasting is decades behind Earth’s meteorology. Learn what makes auroras so unpredictable—and the real-time ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...