Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

Sydney, an astronomy intern at Zion National Park with Scientists in Parks, answers some of the internet’s most asked ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting exoplanet’s signal typically features a brief, regularly repeating light curve dip ...