WISPIT 2b is a massive gas giant about five times the mass of Jupiter and approximately 5 million years old, almost 1,000 times younger than Earth.

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

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Optical engineering is a field that thrives on precision and creativity. It requires scientists to design systems that push ...

A detailed image reveals an unusual plasma jet structure, suggesting the presence of two merging supermassive black holes at the galaxy’s core. For more than a century and a half, the distant galaxy ...

A massive new telescope got installed at the International Dark Sky Discovery Center near Fountain Hills and Palisades Boulevards. Visitors will be able to see planets and galaxies and experience a ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...