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

Did NASA find another Earth? Scientists look to the sky to find a copy of our planet, and some experts think they may have ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...

White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun. NASA/R. Ciardullo (PSU)/H. Bond (STScI) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the Sun ...