Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

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

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

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 ...

Katy Perry may have made history as the first pop star in outer space but social media is mocking her space flight.

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

He remains the executive chairman and largest shareholder at Amazon, which, as the Washington, DC-based group Food & Water ...

A research team had previously found that as many as seven Earth-sized planets ... star. “While white dwarf stars may still give off some heat from residual nuclear activity in their outer ...

As it met its face, the planet took a chunk out of its star, too, blasting some of its outer layers into space with the impact. Eventually, the ejecta cooled into a ring of cold dust encircling ...