Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...