Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do?

The planets are not exactly lined up ... namely the alignments of galaxies. Observing galaxies in the very early universe is difficult because they are so faint and far away.

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Attention astronomy fans: This week you have the opportunity to see all of the planets in the night sky — but you’ll have to be lucky and have some special equipment.

These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ... Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A ...

In turn, the elements released by dying stars lead to the formation of more stars as well as the planets that orbit them. But nothing about JADES-GS-z14-0 fits that model. Instead, the galaxy ...

It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 times the mass of Jupiter, it could be a rogue planet speeding around ... wanders alone and starless through our galaxy. Here's how Webb is achieving ...

The authors suggest that if water could survive the formation of the first galaxies, a potentially destructive process, it could have been incorporated into the formation of planets billions of ...