Astronomy

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.

Looming gaps in astronomers’ views of the heavens could undercut the revolutionary potential of NASA’s latest, greatest space telescope

Our galaxy’s enormous scaffolding is shaped by complex magnetic fields

The “mother of dark matter” was a force of nature—and a forceful advocate for other women who wanted to dedicate their career to the cosmos.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the next Earth-threatening asteroid