The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

The brain drain comes as the White House's budget slashes the agency's Fiscal Year 2026 funding to about half of its previous ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...