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 ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've made the first detection of a star swallowing a planet — ...

Scientists have spotted a molecule linked to life in the atmosphere of K2-18b using the James Webb Telescope. Here is a look ...

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...