Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists from the Universities of Montreal, ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

I looked through a high-power telescope for the first time in college. I couldn’t believe how many stars I saw. It’s hard to imagine all the planets orbiting all those stars. I talked about how we ...

2023 was a banner year in science. New views of our universe, breakthroughs in disease research and cures, the solution to a decades-old math problem and interstellar absorption are only the tip of ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Brown dwarfs, between about 13-80 Jupiter masses, will fuse deuterium+deuterium into helium-3 or tritium, remaining at the same approximate size as Jupiter but achieving much greater masses. If a star ...

The universe is vast — possibly even infinite — and in the scheme of things, our planet is tiny. Even in our own solar system, Earth is dwarfed by gas giants like Jupiter. But are there bigger planets ...