It’s about 2.6 times larger than Earth and nearly nine times as massive, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star.

The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

This could be the tipping point,’ says study author. In a nutshell Scientists detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.