Scientists using JWST have uncovered striking cloud formations and extreme heat contrasts on LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot ...

Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...

The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

The new 8.5-foot telescope is set to launch this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a clear objective: to ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope will explore the universe's origins, map galaxies, and search for water in the Milky Way.

In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars ...

A team of scientists at the University of Utah has designed a flat lens that matches the power of traditional curved lenses ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact ...