The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at ...

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...

Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...

One of the signatories of a petition to that effect is Julia Siedel, also of ESO, who just last week published the first 3D atmospheric analysis of an exoplanet’s climate. As she explains, future ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...