NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new massive and quiescent ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) awarded the Johann Wempe Prize to Dr Sebastian Kamann from Liverpool John Moores University for his outstanding ...

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

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Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...

When young stars mix with neutron stars, things get messy.

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

BlueMUSE will provide detailed observations within the Milky Way and our galactic neighbourhood, helping study targets as ...

The ESIS-II mission aims to capture high-speed “snapshot” images of the Sun’s transition region and corona. To achieve this, the instrument utilizes a slitless spectrograph design that requires ...