A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

Discover the groundbreaking European Extremely Large Telescope, set to revolutionize ground-based astronomy with its 42-meter mirror. European astronomy has received a tremendous boost with the ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist’s impression of a moon-forming circumplanetary disk around CT Cha b, and the carbon ...