Telescopes allow scientists to analyze starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered carbonate-rich rocks on Mars, offering insights into the planet's past and possibly explaining why life has never been found there.

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery ...

When we gaze into the night sky, we see a tiny fraction of what lies beyond our Solar System. In the vastness of space, our Sun and its planets are but a speck of dust. There are thousands of stars ...

Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said on June 25, capturing rare direct images ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery made by a Nasa rover has offered ...