See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's moon cluster together in the same region of the pre-dawn sky, making for a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-US team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial ...

from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare excitement – tinged with caution – in the global scientific community. Using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Space. Followed categories will be added to My News. There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light ...

Now, a separate group of researchers has announced that a greater number of our Milky Way galaxy’s roughly 10 ... that as many as seven Earth-sized planets could orbit a single star.

Madhusudhan said the amount of gas in the atmosphere of K2-18b suggests the planet could be "teeming with life". The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of ...

Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as ... They also argued that heat generated when the rock was blasted into space may have created mineral structures that could be mistaken for microfossils.

This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). But the team and independent ...