NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered complex atmospheric shifts in SIMP 0136, a free-floating ...

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's freely floating through interstellar ...

On balconies and in backyards, Wi-Fi–enabled telescopes are connecting astronomy enthusiasts across six continents.

Scientists are scratching their heads over bizarre new activity on Jupiter. The planet’s famous Great Red Spot is shrinking, but now unexpected storms, energy surges, and atmospheric anomalies have ...