Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest ...

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the planet for the next several decades.

The Earth-moon Lagrange points may be next. In 2024, the U.S. House Select Committee on the China adopted the most definitive ...

A kilonova formed by colliding neutron stars releases gamma ray bursts powerful enough to vaporize atmospheres within a ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?