In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

ESA started working on the first telescope of the network nine years ago, in 2016. It's 3.3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and comes with a 45 square degrees field of view, with each square degree ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and data on the system ever taken. This included Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery in the YSES-1 system, 300 light-years away. It revealed gas giants, YSES-1 b and c, with atmospheres containing 'sand clouds ...

Rare earth metals power modern tech and clean energy, driving global trade shifts and geopolitical tension as new materials ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape our understanding of distant icy worlds—and even hint at how Earth once ...

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of ...