The newly identified three-body system has a problem, and it’s not aliens—it’s that in about 20 million years, the stars are ...

Research suggests the Earth captured the Moon from space, rather than forming the rocky satellite from collision particles ...

In 2026, a European Space Agency (ESA)/Japan Aerospace Agency (JAXA) joint mission will fall into orbit around Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet. However, to do that, the spacecraft first ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star “just” six light-years away from Earth. Barnard’s ...

A stronomers have found a triple star system with shorter mutual orbits than any previously recorded, breaking a record that goes back almost 70 years. The system serves as an extreme laboratory for ...

“This is the first time that we’re seeing a patchiness inside of the Great Red Spot at these wavelengths, indicating ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have found the first exoplanet orbiting a single star. This ...

In 2020, SpaceX agreed to work with the international astronomical community, which was facing research problems due to the brightness of the company's Starlink satellites. But the problems just keep ...

Barnard’s star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun.

A team of astronomers has used the Very Large Telescope to discover a humble planet orbiting Barnard's star, one of the ...

Astronomers have discovered the existence of Barnard b, a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the second closest stellar ...