Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Scientists have discovered oxygen and heavy elements in JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant known galaxy. This suggests galaxies ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t ...

Some AI leaders are concerned the AGI race lacks serious evaluations, and are pushing for assessments of things like ...

The European Space Agency's spacecraft Euclid on Wednesday released a treasure trove of new data in its quest to map and ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

The Earth passed between the sun and the March full moon around ... Now, we’re looking ahead to the next eclipse, which isn’t all that far away. Here’s when we’ll see the next solar eclipse and the ...

At about 6 light years away, Barnard’s star is the nearest single ... Astronomers refer to a “habitable zone” that exists ...