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

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

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

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

JWST placed new limits on planets around Epsilon Eridani and demonstrated an improved technique for spotting faint signals.

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

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," ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

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