The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic photography ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

The spring equinox has brought the arrival of spring to the northern hemisphere. On Thursday (March 20), the Sun appears directly above the Earth's equator, marking the official start of astronomical ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after nine months in space, and the before-and-after ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...