Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...

The article discusses three main telescope types: refractors (best for bright objects, portable), reflectors (best for faint objects, larger apertures), and catadioptrics (compromise between aperture ...

A baby exoplanet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a never-before-seen view of ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago. That’s exactly what NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is built to do. Since it launched in ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...

with other telescopes also contributing (see ‘Alien worlds’). The exoplanetary zoo hosts a diversity of beasts. There are ‘hot Jupiters’ that whirl closely around their stars, including the planet ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and Earth. The authors dubbed it Planet Y.

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...

Mars will be visible to stargazers Sunday night as it moves into opposition with Earth. All you have to do is walk outside and look up at the sky. Because Mars is directly opposite the sun, the red ...