NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...

An ocean world that's teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

LONDON (AP) - Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more work is needed to confirm their findings. The research, led ...

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