James Webb changed astronomy from a million miles away - but in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Giant Magellan Telescope is being built to challenge it from the ground. With seven 8.4-meter mirrors ...

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Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of these planets were discovered thanks to data from NASA's retired Kepler ...

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring here." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-121b for an entire orbit with the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a ...

Are we alone in the universe? Are we alone in the universe? The search for exoplanets—planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—is helping scientists get closer to an answer. From hot Jupiters to ...

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At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...

On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space, where it was observed deploying in Sun-synchronous orbit, the agency later confirmed. Dubbed ...

A documentary about the making of the final season of “Stranger Things” is now streaming on Netflix. “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5” provides an inside look at the years of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a January 7 presentation at the American Astronomical Society’s 247th meeting in Phoenix, Federico Noguer, an undergraduate ...