An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

Exoplanet science and the search for life beyond Earth continue to advance at break-neck speeds, with the number of confirmed exoplanets by NASA rapidly approaching 6,300, with 223 of those exoplanets ...

A recently developed ultra-black coating not only efficiently absorbs light, but is also extremely thin and durable, enabling ...

Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won't go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft with light sails, tiny spacecraft can be accelerated to near-relativistic speeds without ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected an odd lemon-shaped exoplanet, called PSR J2322-2650b, orbiting a pulsar. Credit: ...

The Webb telescope has detected a dark, atmosphere-less rocky exoplanet that could shed light on how Earth-like worlds die.

There is a reason the most recognizable planet orbiting two stars is the fictional desert world of Tatooine from Star Wars.

There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars where Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker watches a double sunset above Tatooine, ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

A symbolic milestone in the lead-up to mission-readiness: the Pandora Observatory transmitted its first engineering images ...

A giant planet was supposed to have the place to itself. Instead, in a star system 190 light-years away, a hot Jupiter shares ...