The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

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Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made a bold prediction: there is a more than 90 percent ...

The quest for extraterrestrial life remains a cornerstone of space exploration. In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA has ...

NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

Curious-looking rocks found in a riverbed on Mars could hold the best clue yet that life once thrived on the Red Planet.

It started with a hunch. Or more accurately, a glow. Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were combing through the deep sky, same as they’ve done dozens of times, when something odd lit ...

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...