More evidence is the only way to end the debate once and for all. Watanabe and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins are now ...

The origin of water on Earth has always been a curiosity, and a possible NASA mission with research from the University of ...

“A lot of people are not aware that Ireland is active in space,” says Enterprise Ireland’s Padraig Doolan, who is Ireland’s ...

How many exoplanets are in the cosmos and what can they tell us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations.

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may be living our dream of wandering through the cosmos. It's the year 2000. We're floating in ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is in ...

The fate of telescopes in space is looking better now that they are being designed to be serviceable. Researchers developed a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang, making ...