In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

Even if life never took hold on Ceres, the discovery could help broaden the range of environments that could potentially be ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

The discussion underscored how citizen scientists, by contributing thousands of data points from around the world, are ...

According to the DOE’s recent budget request, though, E3SM will continue to exist, but seemingly without one of its primary raisons d’etre. “Any Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) activities ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

Sometimes in science a negative result is just as important as a positive one. And sometimes data artifacts get the better of ...

New Planet In Strange Perpendicular Orbit Around Binary Stars Is Straight Out Of Science Fiction An undetected world is the most likely explanation for this truly bizarre set-up.

Astronomy magazine's special issue asks: What can we do so that Earth is a nice place to live now, and a million generations from now?