Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

NASA has recently shared groundbreaking footage of Mars, offering the clearest images of the red planet ever captured by the ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

The crew of an alien spacecraft entering the Solar System, maybe looking for planets bearing alien life, would be struck by ...

At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know where to look? What else could these gas ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Our latest Humanist Society talk explored the latest round of understanding the universe through space observations. Humanist ...

NASA is releasing stunning photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Check them out below ...