Spring is known as “galaxy season,” but that’s not all April’s nightscapes have in store. Here’s what to find while you’re ...

Partnership between two landlocked Utah institutions promises hands-on learning — and watery research opportunities.

Astronomers typically describe the cosmos with numbers that are, well, astronomical. They measure distances within our galaxy in light-years, where 1 light-year equals 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

In 2024, researchers reported another far-off world that smells like rotten eggs. HD 189733b, some 64 light-years from Earth, ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have validated over 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly detected planets, using a new ...

NASA and a team from the University of Chicago have found an odd, lemon-shaped exoplanet in deep space that might be ...

The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, ...

NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the ...