Deep Space

The weather forecast for faraway, blistering planets called "hot Jupiters" might go something like this: Cloudy nights and sunny days, with a high of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.

A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. A new study has deepened the mystery.

A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy.

Exoplanets are mysterious, they’re complicated, they’re important, they’re awe-inspiring. And, to a team of artists at the Jet Propulsion Lab, they’re also totally fun.

University of Washington scientists became the first to simulate three-dimensional exotic clouds in the atmosphere of another world.

Powerful telescopes are coming soon. Where exactly shall we point them?

A team of astronomers has given us our best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit around a distant star.

A research institution devoted to exploring other worlds, the Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond, was unveiled May 9 at Cornell University.

Faintest galaxy ever detected illuminates unusual aspects of the universe’s early evolution.