After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

Maynooth University has joined an international space science mission with the successful launch of Mauve, a small ultraviolet telescope developed by UK-based company Blue Skies Space. The satellite, ...

See imaginative exoplanet worlds by St. Ann’s fifth graders at Blakemore Planetarium, Museum of the Southwest, on view ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and ...