We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Anew study led by Robb Calder at the University of Cambridge suggests that nearly all known sub-Neptune exoplanets, ...

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

Explore four hypothetical worlds that could be more suitable for humans than Earth, based on current research and simulations ...

Anaxagoras, a visionary Greek philosopher, foresaw concepts of expanding universe and multiple worlds centuries before modern science.

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

TESS entered safe mode after being slewed to point at a target. The spacecraft's solar panels did not rotate to remain pointed at the Sun, resulting in a slow discharge of TESS's batteries. A ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

After passing Mars, slipping behind the Sun and approaching it closely, and gliding past Earth without saying hello, the object is now on its way toward Jupiter. There, on March 16, a small farewell ...