A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a celestial smirk near the horizon.

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

According to a press release, astronomers may investigate the last phases of a dying star with fresh James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images. Showing a Taurus constellation planetary nebula 1,500 ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

The Trappist-1 system, just 40 light years from Earth, contains 7 rocky planets—all roughly the size of Earth. Packed tightly within the space between Mercury and the Sun, three of these planets lie ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

The first humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles are sending back images ... as the crew conducts experiments to measure the effects of microgravity on the human musculoskeletal system.