Scientists have found a nearby planet that appears to be teeming with life, and now we may know what it looks like. The ...

NASA has released a gallery of fascinating images captured by the Hubble Space telescope from its home at 320 miles above the ...

Britain launched its first satellite, Ariel 1. This made the United Kingdom the third country to have a satellite in orbit after the U.S. and the Soviet Union — but they didn't launch it themselves.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet dubbed K2-18b.

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. Four ...

It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space on April 24, 1990, ushering an array of scientific discoveries for the past 35 years.

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...