Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, astronomers and citizen scientists have discovered a record-breaking system ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers detected a potential gas giant exoplanet, designated S1, orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the closest stellar system to Earth. The ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...

The uncommon interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is captivating astronomers worldwide as it races through our solar system at an astonishing speed of roughly 130,000 mph (219,000 km/h).

Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.

Astronomers have discovered a first-of-its-kind quadruple star system in our own Milky Way, a surprising find that could help scientists better understand mysterious objects called brown dwarfs. Also ...