Saturn takes center stage once darkness falls in October. Although the ringed world reached opposition and peak visibility in ...

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

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While astronomers have studied circumstellar disks, circumplanetary disks have not been investigated in detail. Now astronomers have peered into a moon-forming disk for the first time, thanks to the ...

Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. Astronomers are using the data to study the chemical composition of a disc that is believed to be the basis for the ...

The institute has been a unique fixture in Ireland, and now, with space central to its future, the sky is no limit ...

The autumn night sky in Ireland is an observer's treasure-trove and the first celestial event of the season arrives on September 7 with a lunar eclipse and blood moon ...

Ants play vital roles from soil health and pest control to maintaining the food web and ecosystem balance. Losing them would trigger profound environmental consequences.

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...

Telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope have given astronomers unprecedented access to the cosmos, but even these advanced imaging systems come with ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile late ...