A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

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Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... For transiting planets, it will analyse the starlight passing through their atmospheres, revealing crucial spectral data. For non-transiting planets ...

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Neptune's elusive auroras have been finally revealed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers scouring through ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

The next partial eclipse will happen in the early hours of March 29, with it being visible mostly in the northeast starting ...