As the nights grow longer across the Northern Hemisphere, November offers a dynamic stage for planet watchers. From elusive ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense star-forming regions, revealing that Earth-like planets can form even in ...

The object, known as Cha 1107-7626, lies about 620 light-years away and is estimated to be five to ten times the mass of ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...

Scientists found that colorful pigments in Earth’s cloud microbes may help telescopes identify signs of life on distant ...