A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-CalTech via Wikimedia Commons Kepler 186 is located in a habitable zone similar to Earth, though it orbits an M1 dwarf star. Credit: NASA Ames/SETI ...

Discover the giant legacy of the Renaissance period astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe in Prague, the city of a hundred spires, where astronomy, maths, music and art connect.

Some people are allergic to others – but the mystery of how this works is only just starting to be unravelled.

Solar flares can reshape exoplanet atmospheres within days, affecting temperature, winds, and potential habitability.

Blue lagoon The Virgo cluster as seen by the Vera C Rubin Observatory include shots of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas. (Courtesy: NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory) The first spectacular images from the ...

The completed Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is intended to consist of approximately 350 6.1 meter offset Gregorian dishes at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory site in northern California. Given the number ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.