Above the atmosphere is space. It’s called that because it has far fewer molecules, with lots of empty space between them.

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star.

An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf star discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets.

New measurements show that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known galaxies.

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty.

An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf — the most common type of star in the universe — appears to have no atmosphere at all.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to outer space – and then keep going? What would you find?

Provides insight into the formation and evolution of asteroids, icy moons and Earth-like rocky planets in the early history of the universe.

A team of Canadian astronomers have used the James Webb Telescope (JWST) to identify the most distant globular clusters ever discovered.

An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf — the most common type of star in the universe — appears to have no atmosphere at all.

Two stars in a binary system 3,000 light years from Earth are orbiting each other so closely that one of the stars has burnt out.

Groundbreaking observation from Gemini Observatory suggests this and possibly other colossal stars are less massive than previously thought.

In the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit small stars

Northwestern University launched STARFORGE, a project that produces the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulations of star formations

A team has developed a method that will allow them to ‘see’ through the fog of the early Universe and detect light from the first stars.

The star system consists of a binary set of stars – two stars that orbit one another and then one, more massive star orbiting the binary.

Newly discovered black holes in dwarf galaxies shed light on the origin of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way's closest neighbor, is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye.

Planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars and might point to extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers have been able to identify the widest range of elements in a relatively bright star beyond our solar system yet.