There’s more to studying outer space than looking through telescopes and analyzing the mineral compounds in samples collected ...

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've made the first detection of a star swallowing a planet — ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

In the piece, columnist Moira Donegan writes in part that the star-studded Blue Origin flight “served as a kind of perverse funeral for the America that once enabled both scientific advancement and ...