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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists find astonishing planet near to Earth - Planet is at least half as massive as Venus – and could be one of many, ...

One of the most sought after locations for the eclipse was remote Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as its called by residents, ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

The exoplanet was discovered while searching for a hypothesized earth-like planet believed to be three times larger than ...

Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...