This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...