An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev has discovered new ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The Geminids peak Dec. 13, producing up to 120 meteors per hour visible from 8 p.m. until sunrise. Plus, a recap of ...

A new crew is heading to the International Space Station, just in time for Thanksgiving, to continue important research.

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:28 a.m. ET on Tuesday ...