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

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and ...

By spotting these strong carbon dioxide features, we have shown there is a sizable fraction of heavier elements, like carbon, ...

NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s ...