The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Mapping the distribution of the galaxies will help scientists ... incorporated into newly forming planets. SPHEREx will act like a partner for the James Webb Space Telescope.

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...