It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

“The Nevada NASA Space Grant gives our students an incredible opportunity to tackle cutting-edge research and make real contributions to their fields ... current universe—specifically metal-poor ...

The former British colony is celebrating its diamond jubilee this year, and there’s every reason to plan a visit: hike ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — ...

Rarely have so many different experiences been available in so little space as when the Danish gaming scene showcased its ...