Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

NASA and SpaceX delay astronaut recovery mission; Spanish fossils may reveal unknown human species, while astronomers ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

As its name suggests, Transporter 13 will be the 13th mission in SpaceX's Transporter series. The company also runs another ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...