It sounds crazy, but ESA’s CHEOPS telescope is built to blur stars — on purpose. This counterintuitive design actually helps astronomers detect tiny dips in light caused by exoplanets passing in front ...

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

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 ...

Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space.

A Falcon 9 launched 140 payloads on its latest rideshare mission Nov. 28, ranging from European government spacecraft to a ...

The top ten most expensive space missions include the USSR/Russian GLONASS mission at the bottom, and the U.S. Apollo space ...

Andy Weir talks about his work on the upcoming movie version of Project Hail Mary Andy Weir, a computer programmer turned novelist, packs his books with real science. He brought that attention to ...

Illustration: Xihe sun exploration satellite "With the help of the Xihe satellite, we can obtain full-disk solar spectra at more than 300 wavelength points simultaneously every 46 ...

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

Nvidia's AI monopoly fractures as Google Gemini 3 and Anthropic Claude 4.5 defect to custom TPUs. This seismic shift ...