The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Scientists have finally worked out where the most common kinds of planets come from.

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...