A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

A Black Hole May Have Eaten a Star and Produced the Longest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded ...

The film which opens in theaters Thursday is grounded in a real nearby star systems an exoplanet science, with a dose of fictional biology.

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do. Reading time 3 ...

A breakthrough in the cosmic caper came in 2023, when a team of researchers led by Anna de Graaff, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, used the Webb telescope to analyze ...

Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed ...

Spread the loveThe new moon in March 2026 promises to be a remarkable event for stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts alike. With the absence of moonlight during this phase, the night sky will present ...

Description This pair of images shows stars observed by the SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat) space telescope ...

Southeast Missouri State University’s Department of Chemistry and Physics will host a community Solar Star Party on March 21 ...

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

Located just 35 light-years away, this world is roughly 1.6 times the size of Earth. But don’t call it a twin. It’s a scorching, pungent orb wrapped in an atmosphere of hydrogen and sulfur, perched ...