The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else ...

Scientists say exoplanet LHS 1140b shows promising signs that it could have an atmosphere, making it potentially suitable for ...

New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter and Saturn after the sun dies in about five billion years.

Beta Pictoris is one of the most scrutinized star systems in the sky, a young sun ringed by a vast, dusty disk that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An object has been discovered orbiting the sun far beyond ...

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Sky-watchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on ...

Contracts with the U.S. government are testing Planet's reputation for transparency.

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...