If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

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We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

NASA Hubble observations from late 2023 to early 2024 document measurable size, shape, and motion changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot over one oscillation cycle.

A few months later, in April 1986, a sudden power surge during a reactor systems test caused a meltdown of the Chernobyl ...

American scientist heads the Carl Sagan Center and researches the potential for humans to inhabit the extreme environments of ...

Saturn and Neptune will be in the same binocular view for the entire month. Neptune lies 3.5 degrees northeast of Saturn on January 1 and 1.7 degrees by January 31. Neptune shines at magnitude 7.8 and ...

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers ...

Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...