A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler Acknowledgement: M. A. McDonald A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be ...

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

Among its findings are the measurements of nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe. Ishak-Boushak helped lead the analysis of the latest DESI data ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

"But even if we don't detect life, we'll quantify how rare – or common – planets ... fewer than 10 to 20% of similar planets in the universe has life. Surveying this many exoplanets is well ...