The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

Space scientists have shown off their pictures of the year - by sharing twelve months of cosmic wonders. The European Space Agency (ESA) have put together highlights of exciting images and discoveries ...

Far beyond the blue sky and the familiar glow of the aurora, Earth is wrapped in a vast, ghostly shroud of hydrogen that stretches almost to the Moon. NASA’s new Carruthers Geocorona mission is ...

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

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

Harvard's Avi Loeb weighs in on 3I/ATLAS, the 'interstellar cyanide tablet' passing Earth. Is the comet raining poison, or is ...

Hubble identified the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing a turbulent, chaotic environment with material extending ...

The Meteosat Third Generation – Imager 1 (MTG‑I1) view, captured at 6am UK time, shows the planet’s day–night terminator ...