This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution. The ...

After a four-decade run, the massive, waterlogged berg is leaking meltwater and on the verge of disintegrating.

A team using Hubble uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud, a remnant of early galaxy formation.

This Hubble image captures a jet of gas from a forming star. The bright pink and green patches are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objects.

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and ...

On clear days in Hartbeespoort, South Africa, satellite images often reveal a reservoir with shades of deep blue interrupted by drifting patches of vivid green. These shifting features indicate algae ...

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of ...

NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) reached its destination at Lagrange point 1, or L1, approximately 1 million miles from ...

New Hubble and ground-based observations allowed astronomers to track the influence of a recently discovered companion star around Betelgeuse.

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has achieved its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ...

Developed using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite, this resource makes it possible to estimate river discharge, defined as the ...