University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists say they found indications of potential life on K2-18b, a planet outside our ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

Mankind’s search for extra-terrestrial life may have reached a turning point with ‘the strongest signs yet of possible life ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected potential biosignatures, dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl ...

A giant planet 124 light years from Earth has yielded the strongest evidence yet that extraterrestrial life may be thriving beyond our solar system, astronomers claim. Observations by the James ...