View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

The air is cool, the high desert is nearly completely silent, and the Milky Way stretches like glitter across the sky ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

Indian-origin astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan is leading what may be a major step forward in the search for alien life, with ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

New molecules discovered on a faraway exoplanet have given scientists the “strongest evidence yet" that life may exist beyond ...

While studying exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away, the team found signs of chemicals which are produced on Earth by simple organisms such as marine ... of Cambridge using the James Webb ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...