Simulations show two satellites per Hubble exposure. China’s Xuntian telescope may see 92 satellites. Its wide view makes it ...

In April, during Jared Isaacman's first nomination hearing for the post of NASA administrator, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts asked repeatedly if SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk was in the ...

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Lead author Alejandro Borlaff, a NASA research scientist, says the trend marks a troubling shift: “My career has been focused ...

Recently, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has introduced several measures to curb cybercrime, financial fraud, and ...

Almost all planets in our solar system have moons – why not exoplanets? Astronomers believe they have discovered the first ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

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

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer. With the number of exoplanets having ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...