The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and ...

Using its 14-inch main telescope, the observatory tracked the comet immediately after sunset. In the resulting image, the ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal publishes the most precise study to date of the planetary system around the star LP 98-59. This ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...