In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope team has integrated the innovative Roman Coronagraph Instrument, marking a major milestone in ...
Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. It’s called a "Super-Earth" because it’s ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...
As we stand on the cusp of unprecedented breakthroughs, the fusion of AI and space technology is poised to reshape our ...
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time ...