"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

Astronomers are increasingly finding planets that do not simply circle their stars in neat, clockwork ellipses but instead trace out paths that look more like intricate choreography. The latest ...

Do they look similar to Jupiter? A new study finds they probably don't. Before getting into the details, let's talk about the ...

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star's habitable zone, it means that there is a chance that ...

Thanks to the space telescope, a team of astronomers detected with unprecedented precision two helium tails escaping from the exoplanet WASP-121b. This artistic representation of exoplanet WASP-121 b ...

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...

NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, preparing for final testing and launch by May 2027 to ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

With various loudmouths pushing the buttons, canning Kevin Stefanski has become a hot topic of late. Barry McBride takes a ...