There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's ...

On Jan. 11, the Pandora SmallSat launched atop a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Tasked with ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Solve the math puzzle from our February 2026 issue, where we plan a return passage for a robotic explorer that doesn’t want ...