On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

NASA has pushed the boundaries of astronomy once again with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the most advanced telescope ...

Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

The star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b, is depicted in this illustration released by ...

Other citizen science groups contributed as well, including the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Sub Group 1 (TFOP SG1) and ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...