Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Experts spotted a new, young planet with a strange behavior orbiting a dwarf star. It is 10 times bigger than the Earth and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedentedly sharp image of planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have provided the strongest indications yet of potential life beyond our solar ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have detected the presence of molecules in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b that, on Earth, are solely produced by simple life f ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The Trappist-1 system, just 40 light years from Earth, contains 7 rocky planets—all roughly the size of Earth. Packed tightly within the space between Mercury and the Sun, three of these planets lie ...

ALIENS might be lurking on a far-off ocean planet in an “astounding” discovery, Britain’s brainiest scientists have told The Sun. Top alien-hunting astronomers at the University of ...