Scientists have revealed that radar systems at airports and military bases would shine out like cosmic beacons for any watching civilisations. This means airports like Gatwick and Heathrow could be ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

American space agency NASA announced the discovery of a planetary system that isn't flat, has transit timing variations, and shows orbital planes tilting ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy – yet, it remains a challenge ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere and telescope to reach its sensor.

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...