For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...
NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.
The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects ... without signs of a surrounding solar system. These new observations, and those forthcoming, will help researchers understand ...
NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...