K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

Researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have made a groundbreaking discovery of mineral-forming events ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life.

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

NASA has discovered molecules known to come exclusively from life in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, suggesting the ...

Uncover the mysteries of Mars' magnetic field, generated by a molten core, unlike Earth's solid core structure.

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

A distant world unlike any planet in our own solar system could potentially be “teeming” with life, according to a ...