TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

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Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

The KM3NeT underwater telescope detects a record-breaking neutrino of hundreds of PeV, marking the beginning of a new era.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

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Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

When most people imagine the vastness of space, they picture a dark void with plenty of observable objects. Planets, stars, and other galaxies often come to mind when picturing what space actually ...