The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Since this past September, Saturn’s been the best planet to enjoy through even a small telescope, even though its ring system ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...