NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

A new candidate exoplanet appears to almost uncanny similarities to Earth — but may differ in at least one major way.

The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...

NASA is using artificial intelligence to speed up the search for planets beyond our solar system. The latest tool, called ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a massive gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, the same elements that form stars.

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has once again surprised astronomers by tracking interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a ...

During a special observation run earlier this month, NASA’s TESS space telescope recorded the interstellar comet’s subtle glow and tail, adding to archived observations that may reveal clues about ...