After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

A new era in space research is on the horizon, with the launch of the Mauve space telescope, the world’s first commercial ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

A new discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists fresh insight into Venus and its potential to host life ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Just after midnight, the moon will light up the east-northeastern horizon, cozying up right next to Jupiter. Here's how and ...

The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope had a major problem before two young scientists unlocked its full potential.

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.