Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Aschbacher named experienced German astronauts Matthias Maurer and Alexander Gerst as candidates for this Moon trip, ...

It looks and behaves like a comet, and all evidence points to it being a comet.” With that blunt statement, NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya ended weeks of speculation that interstellar ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

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 ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

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

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

This guide aims to break down some of the hottest subjects right now, from where we’re going next to the tech making it all ...