A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's ...
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...
A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing Earth-like worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...
Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...
How can astronomers develop better methods for blocking the intense starlight of an exoplanetary system and reveal the exoplanets hiding underneath the glare? This is what a recent study published in ...
Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...
John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, methane and carbon monoxide on exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The exoplanet is more ...
A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...