A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

A surprising new study suggests the intense radiation from active galactic nuclei from a black hole might support life ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Such an occurrence is called a tidal disruption event (TDE), and while we've seen many such events in other galaxies ... matter that composes stars, planets, moons, our bodies, and everything ...