Astronomy has just revealed a cosmic monster of unprecedented scale, a black hole so colossal that it pushes the boundaries ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet, 51 Pegasi b, opened the door to a field that now boasts more than 5,000 ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

With new telescopes coming online and fresh discoveries arriving almost weekly, the search is only accelerating. Each new world we find is more than a point of light somewhere in the great darkness.

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. What's more, the find represents the first clear detection of ...

Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories like the Habitable Worlds Observer or ground-based observatories, have the potential to increase our observational capability without launching ...