Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and contraction of other materials. The alloy’s unique NTE property and lack ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

American companies launched 21 commercial space missions in June 2025, which was a new record for a single month, according ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...