At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

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

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal whether Earth is unique.