An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, ...

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

For the first time, JWST has discovered an exoplanet through direct imaging, revealing TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass world.

In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 ...

For the first time since its launch on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet, TWA ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...