The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

A new study using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has overturned long-held beliefs about mini-Neptune exoplanets. Earlier, scientists assumed these planets—smaller than Neptune but ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

According to the study, scientists had assumed that searing heat and thick gas layers would melt mini-Neptune crusts into ...

The first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of the galaxy M61 that may explain ...

First image from Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of galaxy M61 that may explain its mysterious ...

Scientists studying the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS now concede that its origins may forever remain a mystery—'it's like a ...