NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, while the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star.

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...