Epsilon Indi Ab: It is a Jupiter-like exoplanet located 12 light-years away from Earth. It is also known to be one of the ...

IRAS 23385: This is an image of the molecular cloud region near the protostar IRAS 23385. Scientists also speculate to ...

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

ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...

Podcast art for Universo curioso de la NASA, the agency's first podcast in Spanish, which returns for a second season in ...

"Iron Winds and Metal Rain" may be an awesome title for an album by a heavy metal band, but it's also a fairly accurate ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

Unprecedented intricacy of star formation in the Eagle Nebula is seen in this stunning new image of the famous Pillars of ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

A star’s surface temperature can be used to determine the star’s luminosity and chemical composition. At best, a star’s exact ...

The most familiar type of telescope is the refractor. It uses two lenses, one to collect the light and form an image, called ...