The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

Scientists, peering 7 billion years back into the past, have discovered something that may help us better understand the ...

The universe never ceases to amaze, and the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided an incredibly detailed glimpse into one of the cosmos' most intriguing structures—the ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Alicja Ostrowska's doctoral thesis "Life and AI at NASA" examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the way science is conducted within some of the world's most ambitious space projects. The ...

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that's the darkest of all? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...