The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

If humanity was forced to leave Earth and settle on another planet, where would we go? Well, today, we will look at six of ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, moving the mission into critical testing before its ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Exoplanets are far too small and dim compared with their parent star to be observed directly. Instead, space- and ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...