When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

From Sailor Moon to Sailor Pluto, these are the strongest powers and techniques the Sailor Scouts use to fulfill their ...

Katy Perry may have made history as the first pop star in outer space but social media is mocking her space flight.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

In the piece, columnist Moira Donegan writes in part that the star-studded Blue Origin flight “served as a kind of perverse funeral for the America that once enabled both scientific advancement and ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...