The Cincinnati Public Library teamed up with astronomer Dean Regas to let patrons check out telescopes. The popular program ...

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Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae—clouds of ...

What are the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope? These X-rays may offer a clue.

The original story “ Promising biosignatures on alien worlds could take years to confirm ” is published in The Brighter Side ...

In January in Monterrey, Mexico, Iván Venzor was one of only a dozen people in the world to glimpse a potential Jupiter-sized planet crossing in front of a distant star. It happened too fast to see by ...

Thousands of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, are in this 2022 photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. [Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI] BY The Conversation Curious Kids is a series for ...

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe ...

NASA has completed its next space observatory, built to create sharp, panoramic maps of the universe while revealing how the ...

A distant Jupiter-like planet has revealed an unexpected secret: water-ice clouds hiding in its atmosphere. The discovery, made with JWST, shows these alien worlds are more complex than scientists ...

Founded in 1926, the Los Angeles Astronomical Society marked its centennial with a celebration at Griffith Observatory on ...