Earth is the only planet in the known universe that has the right combination of water, atmosphere, temperature, and chemical ...

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the ...

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

Planet K2-18b is very unlikely to be a one-off in the vast universe - meaning many others that are similar likely exist too.

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

The rotating model, which does not break any known law of physics, suggests the universe could spin around once every 500 billion years. This would be far too slowly to detect easily, but enough to ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...