An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has transformed astronomy, capturing breathtaking views of the universe. Here are 10 of its most iconic images.

You might be able to see the so-called 'smiley face' if you're just at the right spot. But this facial feature will only have ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There ...

Part of the challenge when it comes to researching the existence of alien life is knowing where to look. Until relatively recently, the focus for Nasa’s search for life was Mars, but that began to ...