A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent ...

Scientists have found strong signs of possible life on exoplanet K2-18b, a potential "Hycean world," suggesting new avenues in the search for alien life.

Part of the challenge when it comes to researching the existence of alien life is knowing where to look. Until relatively recently, the focus for Nasa’s search for life was Mars, but that began to ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Scientist reveal promising signs of biological life on another planet, but trying to reach out to them could be 'a really bad ...

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have found the strongest indication yet of ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Jupiter is the heavyweight champion of the planets, but Neptune is no slouch either. According to NASA, Neptune is about 17 t ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that planets may spiral into their stars, rather than being swallowed by expanding red ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

The end was quite dramatic, as evidenced by the aftermath documented by Webb. The orbiting telescope, which was launched in 2021 and became operational in 2022, observed hot gas likely forming a ring ...