The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, marking humanity's farthest-known discovery of oxygen.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged carbon dioxide in a planetary system beyond our own for the first time.

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

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A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...

Astronomers discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. This changes what we thought about how fast galaxies formed.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Scientists have discovered oxygen and heavy elements in JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant known galaxy. This suggests galaxies ...

Astronomers say that the discovery provides evidence that the universe developed much faster after the Big Bang than ...