Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

Human knowledge of the cosmos increased dramatically in the 20th century as large ground-based telescopes and orbiting observatories ... in other NASA-funded astronomy programs, such as developing ...

Scientists have discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet, GI 410 b, using the radial velocity technique. It orbits a nearby star 39 light years from Earth and has a mass 8.5 times that of our planet. The ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than ... In this undated file photo, Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by the European ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...