NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted early signs of an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light ...

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

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The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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I recall as a child lying on the grass at night, gazing up at the stars, and wondering if any of those distant suns had planets orbiting nearby. I was not the first to do so, of course. The question ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

Instead of quietly swallowing the gas and dust that fall into it, the black hole is blasting gas outward at record-breaking ...

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

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Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

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