"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Ginsburg ...

The planet's lopsided magnetic field is twisting the light shows.

Woven through the universe are forces, often unseen, that dictate its grand design. For example, at the very heart of nearly ...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and an ice giant known for its striking blue-green color, caused by methane in its atmosphere. It rotates on its side with a 98-degree tilt, creating extreme ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

Astronomers have found growing evidence that runaway black holes are hurtling through galaxies at extreme speeds, leaving ...

HOUSTON, TX -A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help steer some of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...