Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints… of an alien world” on a distant planet orbiting ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

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

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

"CBS Mornings" Gayle King and the rest of Blue Origin's historic all-women spaceflight crew blasted off on Monday.

A few more stars are entering the stratosphere as Blue Origin's all-female, celebrity-studded space flight takes flight.

Six women - including pop star Katy Perry - bin blast off into space as part of an all-women suborbital mission ...

An all-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, flew into space on a Blue Origin rocket. They touched down back on Earth ...