The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers Amazed to Identify ‘Cosmic Triplets’ Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Neptune For decades, astronomers have mopped ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

A pair of high school students in Pennsylvania created a program called Girls Need Space to host events and discussions that ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Two Lewisburg Area High School seniors made it their mission to encourage younger girls to participate in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities. Eighteen-year-old ...

The latest discovery marks the furthest detection of oxygen ever made and defies what we thought about how galaxies formed in the early universe.

The European Space Agency launched a new telescope, Euclid, in 2023 to explore the hidden forces shaping the Cosmos. Since ...

ESA's Euclid mission is exploring the "dark universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...