Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.

An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

A plane is supersonic if it moves faster than the speed of sound in air, which is around 343 meters per second (767 miles per ...

Evan Shwartz introduces the first installation of something special, "In this series about astrophotography in Alameda, we will look at pictures of galaxies, nebulae, planets, and celestial events ...

Based on Martha Wells' "Murderbot Diaries" book series, the Apple TV+ comedy follows a depressed robot that just wants to ...

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

Webb Space Telescope reveals a surprisingly clear atmosphere on planet TOI-421 b, helping scientists understand the evolution ...

The Rho Ophiuchi nebula system is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and as such has come under the scrutiny of both ...