The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

NASA's Pandora satellite, launching in 2025, will study exoplanet atmospheres, complementing the James Webb Space Telescope's ...

Just as modern telescopes reveal the hidden structure of nebulae and star clusters, understanding the physics behind twilight ...

Learn how researchers may have discovered an exomoon about 635 light-years away orbiting gas giant exoplanet WASP-4b. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...