One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured Phobos eclipsing the Sun, offering insights into Mars' moons and evolution.

In the movie Contact (1997), a scientist travels to the star Vega and finds herself surrounded by a cloud of debris, a scene ...

"The Hubble and Webb observations together provide so much more detail that they are telling us something completely new ...

In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by ...

NASA/Wikimedia Exoplanetary systems generally host planets of the super-Earth type (between 1.2 and 3.5 times the size of Earth) and mini-Neptunes (up to 7 or 8 times the size of Earth), orbiting very ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

Conservationists have analysed progress towards the ’30 by 30′ target as the first official assessment of international efforts to ...