SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving observatory has managed to capture four of them in a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

PASADENA, Calif. (CN) – The quest to find exoplanets – Earth-like objects orbiting distant stars in our universe – will get a boost from a flower-like spacecraft with metallic petals to block ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called WASP-39b. But that detection was made indirectly, so the latest ...

The world premiere of a co-production between City of London Sinfonia and theatre company curious directive will blend theatre, live orchestral performance and a "planetarium experience" to ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...