Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

Recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed compelling evidence of a giant planet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the nearest stellar system to the Sun. Led by ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS after new observations indicated that it partially disintegrated following its close approach to the Sun, raising questions about ...

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

Artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Credit: Anastasiia Nahurna. Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a world that refuses to fit in. SIMP 0136 isn’t a star because it’s too small ...

A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124. Travel 15,000 light years in this zoom-in to see the amazing look. Credit ...

"Instead of sending astronauts to bolt on new parts, they managed to fix things with code." Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI ...

Scientists keep returning to one star: Proxima Centauri. It’s the nearest neighbor to our Sun, just over four light-years away, and already home to a rocky planet. That planet, Proxima b, sits close ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image blurring in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their innovation, called ...

Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...