Researchers at Uppsala University report that the Sun contains about 55% more silver than earlier estimates suggested. Using updated, more...

Nearly a decade after the discovery of LHS 1140b—a rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby red...

Pasadena, CA—A Harvard-led team has reported the strongest evidence yet that a nearby rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140 b, retains an...

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), in partnership with Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), has announced a Media Press...

Listening to the “ringing” left behind after black holes collide could soon let scientists test Einstein’s General Relativity in some...

PASADENA—NASA’s Perseverance rover has found evidence that a thick, ancient rock sequence at the rim of Jezero Crater was assembled...

Scientists have produced the most detailed picture yet of the planetary system around Barnard’s Star, the Sun’s closest neighbour after...

An asteroid-family breakup in the main belt may have triggered an inner-solar-system-wide “impact shower” roughly 800 million years ago, according...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a third exoplanet orbiting Beta Pictoris, a young nearby star that has become a...

Planetary scientists from Brown University have produced a new global-style picture of how thick the Moon’s regolith—its blanket of loose...