The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

The world’s first private space telescope is set to revolutionize the search for stars with habitable exoplanets, marking a ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...

A new era in space research is on the horizon, with the launch of the Mauve space telescope, the world’s first commercial ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...

A baby exoplanet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a never-before-seen view of ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

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