Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...
At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, is a major step forward in filling in gaps ...
Space has a way of reminding us how little we actually know about the neighbourhood beyond our own front door. When a new ...
A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright tendrils of gas and stars belong to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, ...
AMES, Iowa – Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their ...
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational ...