Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has triggered a global scientific alert after emitting mysterious radio signals, prompting NASA ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

Hubble spots the largest known planet forming disk, chaotic and lopsided, hiding a young star 1,000 light years away, raising ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

That’s according to a re-examination of data captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which flew by Titan dozens of times ...

Here is a look at just a few of the biggest developments in astronomy that The Debrief has been tracking in 2025.

A disk 40 times the diameter of our solar system has been discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which is likely an image of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

It is naturally found in low concentrations on our planet, but the recent discovery of D₂O in space has helped astronomers to ...