In a groundbreaking step for exoplanet science, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has given us an unprecedented look at the atmosphere of TOI-421 b, a sub-Neptune exoplanet about 245 light ...

Asteroid 9 Metis reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT in the constellation Libra — not far from Vesta, which reached opposition a week ago. Visible from sundown to sunup, the best time to look for ...

In 1958 the great extragalactic astronomer George Abell of UCLA compiled a catalog of galaxy clusters. It was extended by Abell and collaborators in 1987 and eventually contained 4,076 clusters.

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Mysteriously, ... Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded ...

TOI-270 d is an exoplanet discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). TESS uses a transit method to discover new ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) utilizes mid-infrared spectroscopy to precisely analyze molecular components such as water vapor and sulfur dioxide in exoplanet atmospheres. The key to this ...

Astronomers Find Earth-Like Exoplanets Common Across the Cosmos Apr. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought.