After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

After Webb's launch, Australian scientists used a unique instrument, AMI, to diagnose and correct image distortions. Their ...

The earliest such attempts date to Nikola Tesla in 1899. Where, and how, are we listening today? What are we hoping to hear?

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced the ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...