Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a ...

NASA officials will unveil details about a new finding connected to a unique sample the Perseverance rover found on Mars ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015. This discovery marked the culmination of a 100-year ...

During the early scientific observations of the distant universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists began to notice a peculiar class of objects. They are very red, extremely compact, ...

For a long time, the planet TRAPPIST-1e, located 40 light-years from Earth, has been considered a target in the search for extraterrestrial habitable worlds. An international team, using NASA's James ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The fate of space shuttle Discovery remains in limbo as NASA approaches an important deadline outlined in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This legislation gave acting NASA ...

On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time. Before then, Pluto was believed to be the most distant planetary body of our solar system. No one ...