Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

Solar flares can reshape exoplanet atmospheres within days, affecting temperature, winds, and potential habitability.

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable?

Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers discovered the first Earthsize planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” of Kepler-186f in 2014. NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle ...

News of Otsego CountyFirst discovered in 2015 by the Kepler Space Telescope, K2-18b quickly drew attention. It is roughly 2.6 times Earth’s diameter, making it unlike anything in our solar system—a so ...

The Kepler Network aims to streamline on-orbit communications with a network infrastructure designed to act as Internet exchange points (IXP) for space-to-space data relay. Credit: Kepler ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found water swirling in the air of a distant alien planet, a new study reports. That exotic world is TOI-421 b, a boiling-hot "sub-Neptune" orbiting a ...

Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula studied since the late 1800s.

Axiom, one of a handful of commercial space station technology developers, has entered a strategic collaboration with Kepler, purchasing two on-orbit computing payloads supporting the company’s ...