Knox students traveled to southern Arizona over spring break to help maintain the Robert L. Mutel Telescope and gain hands-on ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may ...

"It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing." The post ...

Christopher W. Stubbs, a professor of physics and astronomy at Harvard, says there are lots of upsides to the era in which we ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole. The jet ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

New observations: Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of a massive Jupiter-analogue.

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

A planet with a mass almost seven times greater than Jupiter exists at a distance of 12 light-years and contains unexpected ...

New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today. (CREDIT: Monthly ...

Astronomers have identified something surprising on a distant gas giant: water ice clouds. The discovery was made by a team led by Elisabeth Matthews ...