"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

The classification could help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed over time, what ...