Scientists have been quietly working on an idea for nearly a century: use the Sun as a gravitational lens to create a telescope capable of taking high-resolution images of alien worlds — potentially ...

Using the JWST, scientists developed a way to identify the dominant factors driving the atmosphere of a distant brown dwarf.

Stretching more than 200,000 square kilometers (77,000 square miles) across southern Australia, the vast, flat plains of the ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of K2-18 b last year, the discovery sparked intense debate. Here was a sub-Neptune exoplanet 124 light years away ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far more than all previous missions combined. It will look deep into unexplored ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Milky Way galaxy has more than 400 billion stars in it. Over the last few decades, ...

Nikon Small World in Motion has announced its 2026 winners in what might just be one of the most remarkable imaging contests ...

The idea of alien worlds conjures images of planets populated by the beings found in a “Star Wars” bar scene. But the reality is much more nuanced. University of Virginia astronomer Anna Dignan takes ...