Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...

Breaking news shocked Villanova’s campus last Saturday, March 15. Everyone remembers exactly where they were when they ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Move over, 'Eclipse'. The 'Buck Rogers' board game is the new space opera game in town! And by "new" I mean "over 30 years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

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