The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

There are thousands upon thousands of questions related to the topic of astronomy, from the basics of the science to the ...

and it is done in an elliptical manner rather than circular. Due to its size, planet HD 20794d is labelled as a super-Earth. Whilst it is not big enough to be as massive as Jupiter or Saturn ...

This tendency allows the formation of stars, planets, galaxies, and black holes ... Sometimes, as with the Sun and Jupiter, their mutual center of gravity or barycenter lies slightly outside ...

An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

Jupiter’s famous clouds aren’t ammonia ice but a murky mix of chemicals, sitting lower in the atmosphere than expected. For years, astronomers believed that Jupiter’s upper clouds — responsible for it ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.