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 ...

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...

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 ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

For starters, astronomers now know that four planets orbit Barnard’s Star — one of our closest ... Oxygen and elements like heavy metals may exist inside the most distant confirmed galaxy ever ...