The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...

Since the corona is dimmer than the Sun's surface, it's challenging to observe. It's visible during total solar eclipses when ...

NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals around a Sun-like star, some 155 light-years away from Earth. The star, ...

It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be ...

Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...