SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

A distant exoplanet called WASP-107b was observed by NASA’s James Webb, which revealed a giant cloud of helium gas ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—can be seen with the ...

Astronomy magazine tends to focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth, into the depths of space. But the vast majority of observational satellites around our blue world stare right back at ...