When global events set our minds to wondering if humanity has what it takes to persist, it's natural to wonder about other worlds, other life, other intelligent species, and if those others might be ...

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system, home to seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star, has long been a target for astronomers ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

Mars will be visible “in the west for about an hour after the sky starts to darken” — the only planet that is not part of ...

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...

TRAPPIST-1 d is a rocky world 40 light-years away, orbiting a cool red dwarf at just 2% of Earth’s Sun distance, on the inner ...

The new findings on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, mirror similar results for TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, which orbit closer to their red dwarf host, a ...