The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...