Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The annual event celebrates the discovery of the little planet with a big heart and other scientific advances at Flagstaff, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...

NASA revealed the first photographs of the universe taken by the James Webb telescope. These are the shocking images.

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Leo P is a rare, untouched galaxy that has remained unchanged for billions of years. Unlike many galaxies that merged and ...

The night sky is an object of fascination for many, and the Princeton community is no exception. On select nights throughout ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.