The cosmos is filled with wonders yet to be discovered. One of the latest mysteries captivating scientists and space ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Saturn has become the planet with the most moons following the discovery of 128 new moons by a team of astronomers. This brings the total count to 274, surpassing all other planets. These tiny, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

By Kenneth Chang The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos ... ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system ...

without signs of a surrounding solar system. These new observations, and those forthcoming, will help researchers understand objects in the cosmos that could be rogue planets or small brown dwarfs.

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.