In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Our solar system was formed about four and a half billion years ago, from a massive cloud of gas and dust which collapsed on ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...