The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely ...

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

With the moon sitting low in the sky during this phase of its 18.6-year cycle, it's the perfect time to try capturing this ...

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust ...

Feast your eyes on the most mesmerizing feline foot known to humankind. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured this ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.