The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are classified as sub-Earths because each one is about 19% to 34% ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor life, much ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud ...

Four small rocky planets detected in orbit around Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to our solar system, are seen in this illustration. International ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of them are too ...

SEE ALSO: Stop describing a planet as 'Earth-like' unless it really is This marks the first time so many Earth-sized worlds have been found orbiting the same star. It's possible that some of those ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new ...