Greenbelt (Maryland): Nasa unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swathes of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. The ...

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...

To celebrate its 36th anniversary, scientists turned the observatory back toward a target it first imaged in 1997: the Trifid ...

Ahead of schedule and under budget, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in early September. The mission aims to ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

Jupiter's auroras were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, ...

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered 'buckyballs' in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a hollow sphere), they're ...

According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

NASA has completed its next space observatory, built to create sharp, panoramic maps of the universe while revealing how the ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Fears are growing for Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory after warnings that potential UK funding cuts could put its future at risk.