Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
When I get stressed, I look into the night sky and allow my mind to roam the infinity of space and time. It helps to get your ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...
Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...