Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s auroras, offering a fresh look at its atmospheric activity.

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Neptune's auroras in unprecedented detail, confirming decades-long suspicions and ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...