Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a giant gas planet that has already lost more than one-third of its mass since its ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...