Astronomers don’t search for life by seeing planets directly — they read the light that passes through their atmospheres.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories.

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

NASA has postponed the first planned spacewalk of 2026 after a medical concern involving a crew member aboard the ...