Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope has launched, beginning its two-year mission to explore cosmic history, galaxy formation, and cosmic ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.

Planet formation around low-mass stars may ... How do scientists determine the age of a disk? It all depends on the star. "Measuring stellar age is known to be challenging," Long said.

This proximity allowed researchers to probe the atmosphere like never before, being able to map it in three dimensions. The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always ...

NASA's newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday night from California ...

Mr Szwajkun also urged stargazers to get their binoculars ready - and have a star map handy. He said: "If the skies are clear you should be able to spot all the planets in one night. "You will ...

With Mercury joining the show, all ... of planets across the night sky in January. This week Mercury joins the queue. Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars ...

Using sparse materials and national symbols, she challenges how civic identity is constructed, remembered and imposed.