Astronomy

Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem

Betelgeuse, the red star at the shoulder of the constellation Orion, has been acting strange, raising hopes for the spectacle of a lifetime

Hints of water vapor on a world called GJ 486 b could just as well come from the planet’s host star

The first asteroid belt ever found outside the solar system is more complex than expected

Planets might be more common throughout the universe than previously thought, results from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest

Jupiter shines in images made by citizen scientists using data from NASA’s Juno probe

We only have a few clues about where the sun was born. Some new ones point to a crowded origin story for our nearest star

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) and Europa Clipper missions will search for signs of habitability on three of Jupiter’s potentially ocean-bearing moons.

A promising combination of exoplanet-finding methods pinpoints details about its first world

We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope

Red dwarfs are dim bulbs but host more Earth-like planets than any other kind of star

Our first known interstellar visitor is now long gone, but new research has some ideas about why it moved the way it did while it was in our cosmic neighborhood.