Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

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

The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images.

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

JAXA's Hayabusa 2 mission to asteroid 1998 KY26 might have unexpected challenges following new data on the rock's size, spin, and structure.

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

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.