Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland make an incredible discovery of exoplanets that may be home to extraterrestrial life. See ...

He recognizes a cool thing when he sees it.

A brown dwarf orbits the star, while the newly detected object appears to circle the brown dwarf, creating an unusual ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...

Stare into the transfixing eye of the "Seagull Nebula" in this newly-released test image from the visionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

A test image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory shows the head of the Seagull Nebula, one of about 16,000 exposures from its ...

Some days, Dr. Clarissa Do Ó considers herself less of an astrophysicist and more of a “paparazzi for the universe.” As a ...

The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy of ...

In the deepest region of the Earth's mantle, just above the core, much of the material consists of crystals of magnesium oxide. In larger rocky exoplanets called super-Earths, the higher pressures in ...

Mars is the obvious frontrunner, but it is far from an easy second home. The other candidates reveal just how rare truly human-friendly conditions may be.

Dr. Clarissa Do Ó of Caltech receives a 2026 L’Oréal For Women in Science award for her research into detecting Earth-like ...