New research suggests that Venus may never have possessed liquid water oceans. That would mean "Earth's evil twin" was always ...

Magnetic Tornadoes Researchers have observed mysterious, "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, dotting the polar ...

A side-by-side comparison of the photo with its predecessor from the Hubble telescope shows how clearer the newer telescope ...

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James Webb Space Telescope imagery of Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744) delivers three galaxy clusters and so much more. Take a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Day 2 of the. This image shows the center of the Serpens Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed ...

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is today.

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been ...