About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.
The “most pristine” star ever seen may have just been discovered at the edge of the Milky Way. It could be the direct ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the universe.
I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever discovered in our solar system. Telescope observations suggest it is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet zooming at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 ...
A rare cosmic visitor, 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, was discovered in July 2025. This object, on a ...
An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...
"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...
NASA joins the Roman space telescope and key instruments, marking a milestone toward its 2027 launch to reveal the cosmos.
The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...
A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently traversing our solar system, offering scientists a unique chance to ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 ...