Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous ...

Did you know our solar system might have had an extra planet? Scientists believe a mysterious ninth planet once existed but ...

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of water ice in a planetary system beyond our own for the first ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Webb Space Telescope reveals a surprisingly clear atmosphere on planet TOI-421 b, helping scientists understand the evolution ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...