What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its attention. Scientists compete for observing time by submitting proposals, ...

President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new ...

Currently, however, there is no planned launch date. With JWST expected to remain operational at least into the 2030s, its era of discovery is just beginning. Will it find alien life? Maybe, maybe not ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a rectangular design that can separate a planet’s faint glow from its blinding star.

SpaceX is set to launch early Wednesday to send up three satellites on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and dangerous ...

Scientists discovered an exoplanet and are are studying to see if it is habitable. According to the scientists, they are a ...

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) — the most detailed yet of the planet's upper atmosphere — ...

A busy week on the Space Coast saw two rockets launch within hours of one another as both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance had missions to proliferate a pair of competing satellite constellations.

Astronomers might have discovered a galaxy that formed extremely early in the universe, nearly 200 million years before its closest competitor, but they caution there could be other explanations too.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected what appears to be a faint and small star-forming complex. The discovery of the new complex, which received the designation LAP2, ...