The U.S. Senate will hold a hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman's re-nomination for NASA chief ...

NASA has decided to launch a telescope in space to look for life on 20 distant planets.According to Time Magazine, NASA next year will launch a far smaller than usual telescope, weighing just 716 ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

The Geminids peak Dec. 13, producing up to 120 meteors per hour visible from 8 p.m. until sunrise. Plus, a recap of ...

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

Astronomers observed giant helium clouds escaping exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing atmospheric loss and offering key insight ...

A new crew is heading to the International Space Station, just in time for Thanksgiving, to continue important research.

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Astronomers have discovered over 5,800 exoplanets, unveiling strange new worlds and the possibility of life beyond Earth. Explore the latest breakthroughs in our cosmic quest to understand the ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...