Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Direct imaging of distant planets poses a major challenge due to several factors. Fore one, telescopes have difficulty distinguishing the faint light from a planet from the much b ...

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

Hello, Antarctica. Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible.” ...

Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 billion years.

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide ... of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a ...

Why are all living beings on Earth made with the same versions of certain molecules and not their mirror images? This is the ...