The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

The laser system provides real-time positional data on the huge cloud of space debris above our heads in low Earth orbit.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

JWST placed new limits on planets around Epsilon Eridani and demonstrated an improved technique for spotting faint signals.

A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...