The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

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Lichens grow in a wide range of shapes and forms. Does their ability to resist UV radiation suggest how microbes might ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Imagine stepping onto a distant exoplanet, where vast alien oceans stretch beyond the horizon. Based on data from missions ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...