Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

New Webb Telescope data uncovers missing gas that enables star formation in the Phoenix cluster, solving a cosmic puzzle.

Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

An international team of researchers, including those from the University of Michigan, have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the birth of planets around the young star system PDS ...

UC Irvine astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...