Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

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What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

In classical models of stellar evolution, so far little importance has been attached to the early evolution of stars. Thomas ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...