Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

The consortium of the European space telescope Euclid has published its first data set. It includes many newly discovered but ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

The celestial squabble between two stars has been going on for thousands of years, and is set to continue for another 1 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...