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

New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating Halloween with a stunning ... has already transformed into a red giant ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

A Flagstaff-based space company has won a $30 million contract to raise the orbit of a space-based NASA observatory next year ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a thick irradiated crust that no longer resembles its home star system, simulations and ...

The Carruthers Geocoronal Observatory, a NASA satellite built by researchers from BU and the University of Illinois-Urbana ...

The widely talked about Comet 3I/ATLAS will pass by the sun on Thursday, but it will be December before stargazers can get a glimpse of the object.