A surprising discovery in the cosmos: a complex carbon molecule, cyanopyrene, has been detected outside the Solar System.

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined. Thus, astrophysicists can now detect exoplanets still nestled within the dust cloud that witnessed their birth, right ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why.Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere ...

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct a compelling argument for the presence of an exomoon. While many ...

Moons ought to be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy in a glorious profusion. Here in the Solar System, moons dramatically outnumber the planets they orbit: they number nearly 300 known at ...