Wellesley College astronomer Lamiya Mowla - an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Wellesley - is co-lead author of a paper on the new galaxy, a paper which was published on Dec. 11, in ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope announced today that Northwestern University has joined its international consortium to ...

Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's telescope and two instruments onto ...

A mateur astronomers in Dwingeloo in the northeastern Netherlands have picked up a signal from NASA's ailing Voyager 1 spacecraft, around 24.9 billion kilometers (15.5 billion miles) away.

In “Pillars of Creation,” Richard Panek shows how the James Webb Space Telescope is altering our view of the cosmos ...

NASA's new Landolt mission, launching in 2029, will orbit an artificial star around Earth to enhance stellar and planetary ...

A team from the University of Cambridge found that Venus’ interior is dehydrated, suggesting it never had Earth-like oceans.

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"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out ...

The project, which gave astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects, ended its mission and re-entered the atmosphere ...