Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...

Astronomers from Pune's NCRA-TIFR have discovered a rare pulsar, PSR J1617–2258A, in the ancient star cluster M80 using India's upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...