NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our planet’s surface.

Astronomers from Trinity College Dublin used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of SIMP-0136, a nearby ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

Astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in space exploration by discovering over 6,000 planets outside our solar ...

Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which shows thermal light, collected observations of the planet that allowed the team ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

That is what astronomers from Trinity College Dublin have delivered, thanks to the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

While SIMP-0136 is a brown dwarf, not a true planet, the techniques used to study it pave the way for future explorations of ...