It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...

These binoculars guide you through the night sky in real time, with a database of 200,000 stars, and in this hands-on test, I ...

A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the country's ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough in the search for the universe’s most mysterious substance—dark matter. They ...

Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.

The most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star hidden in dust before it exploded has been captured by astronomers. Using NASA ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed view yet of a red supergiant star just before it exploded, hidden beneath layers ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it ...