When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...

Scientists have been researching a rocky planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system and discovered that it… sucks. Would this exoplanet ...

"There are hundreds of billions of alien worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. And scientists have already discovered and confirmed ...

We already have our eyes on Uranus -- NASA's next target destination -- and beyond." In the search for habitable exoplanets, scientists measure the abundances of elements in stars spectroscopically to ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

"The Hubble and Webb observations together provide so much more detail that they are telling us something completely new ...

As we stand on the cusp of unprecedented breakthroughs, the fusion of AI and space technology is poised to reshape our ...