New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

The JWST continues to live up to its promise by revealing things hidden from other telescopes. One of its lesser-known ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet ...

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...