From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar neighbor, which lies just 4.2 light-years away — thanks to a powerful new ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

A disk 40 times the diameter of our solar system has been discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which is likely an image of ...

Dracula's Chivito was detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and is located about 1,000 light-years from Earth.

ESA’s 2026 space missions will take Europe to new heights. From lunar flybys and asteroid studies to Mercury orbit and advanced satellite launches, this year promises groundbreaking discoveries in ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the biggest planet-forming disk ever discovered. The finding reveals violent chaos ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

On Dec. 18, just 24 hours before its closest approach, the Green Bank Telescope scanned frequencies from 1 to 12 GHz. Their ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...