The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

China has shared stunning images of comet 3I/ATLAS captured near Mars. The Chinese Tianwen-1 orbiter provided the first views ...

A new study using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has overturned long-held beliefs about mini-Neptune exoplanets. Earlier, scientists assumed these planets—smaller than Neptune but ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Greetings stargazers. Although I address these “What’s Up in the Durango Skies” columns to stargazers, we should occasionally be moon-gazers, too. I am writing this month’s column on the day of the ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Mercury meets Mars as the Moon wanesCentral Wisconsin skywatchers will find this week packed with planetary motion, lunar ...

A tremendous effort is underway at NASA to send humans to Mars and return astronauts to the moon, including the flight  of ...

According to the study, scientists had assumed that searing heat and thick gas layers would melt mini-Neptune crusts into ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...