As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

The mystery arose more than 20 years ago, when the Hubble Space Telescope spotted ... heavier elements. The exoplanet is about 13 billion years old, which suggests that planets may have formed ...

NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...