“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

High winds, hundreds of lightyears away! Dan Smith shows just how fast one planet's jet stream is moving. 🪐💨 ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.