The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers discovered the first Earthsize planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” of Kepler-186f in 2014. Credit... NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009, was designed to find Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars by monitoring the brightness of over 150,000 stars simultaneously. When ...

Atmospheric Spectra From James Webb Space Telescope. Spectral analysis indicated water vapor, accompanied by potential signs of carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in TOI-421 b’s atmosphere. Notably ...

On April 24, 1990, NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.Since then, the telescope—a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency ...

Astronomers have only identified three disintegrating planets before BD+05 4868 Ab, all of which were detected over a decade ago using data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.

K2-18b was first discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope in 2015. The planet orbits its parent star, a small, relatively cool one known as a red dwarf, in just 33 days. The planet’s ...

Science Space Deep Space Exoplanets Exoplanet with two ‘suns’ is even more unique than Tatooine Like something from 'Star Wars,' 2M1510 is in a rare perpendicular orbit around a pair of brown ...