Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

No, not that Nancy Grace. NASA's newest space telescope, named after the agency's first Chief of Astronomy, is physically ...

More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...

A newly analyzed planetary system has turned up a world orbiting at such a skewed angle that it defies the neat textbook ...

Interstellar objects such as Comet 3I/ATLAS can be sent by alien civilizations to "sow" life on Earth. At the same time, it ...

Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan both knew a lot about science. Sagan said, “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything ...

Researchers studied the data closely and suggested a few possible ideas about the planet’s atmosphere and surface.

Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...

A fascinating study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has shed light on a mysterious chapter in our Solar System’s ...

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, known for his work on the Hubble Space Telescope and who flew on two space missions, ...

A dramatic new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has intensified scientific debate around the disintegration of ...

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets on Dec. 7. Don't miss Jupiter shining close to the waning gibbous ...