With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

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Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that quickly devour what remains of the star-circling gas and dust clouds in which they form. The gas in these protoplanetary disks disappears rapidly, ...

It's a new year, and no better way to kick it off than a dazzling display in the night sky. Now, 2025 promises to bring its own share of stunning celestial events, including the Jan. 13 wolf moon — ...

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In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured the first-ever photo of "naked eye" auroras on Mars. The alien light show — snapped after the Red Planet was battered by a powerful solar storm last year — is ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of Earth-like planets." Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that ...