A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

Sub-Saturn class planets have a size in between that of Neptune and Saturn ... stated that TOI-6651b orbits around its host ...

What stars and planets are visible in the night sky tonight? Join us for an introduction to the night sky, the stars, and constellations. Then we’ll lift off of the Earth to take a tour of the solar ...

In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by ...

Astronomers have pointed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble at nearby star Vega. Surprisingly, they haven't found ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ... roughly 3 billion stars. (Our galaxy, in comparison, contains an ...

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One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

A waning Moon brings out deep-sky objects, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS still stuns, and moons of Saturn and Jupiter stand out in ...

"If life exists in Titan's ocean under the thick ice shell, any signs of life would need to be transported up Titan’s ice shell. This is more likely to occur if Titan's ice shell is warm and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula actually surround "failed stars," or brown dwarfs. This is the first confirmation that ...