Scientists can't use tape measures, rulers or lasers to measure the astronomical distances to stars and galaxies, so how do ...

Look up into the sky on a clear night, and you're likely to glimpse thousands of stars dotting the cosmos. Add a telescope into the mix, and suddenly millions more come into view. The Milky Way is ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new images of Sagittarius B2, the largest star-forming cloud near the Milky ...

NASA is tracking an object that is entering the solar system at approximately 245,000 km/h. This interstellar visitor is ...

Any day now, Californians and others on Earth will get to see a once-in-a-lifetime event that’s out of this world. An exploding star. The nova is expected by the end of September, NASA said. The space ...

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021 astronomy seems to have found its footing once again. Thanks to the remarkable discoveries of the instrument, new and exciting research is ...

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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most ...