After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

Astronomers have identified thousands of exoplanets, but only a handful look like Earth. These 16 worlds may be the closest ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been found, but only a few stand out as truly Earth-like. These 16 may be the most promising ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

Almost all planets in our solar system have moons – why not exoplanets? Astronomers believe they have discovered the first ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...