Recent studies challenge claims of potential alien biosignatures discovered on the exoplanet K2-18b, raising important ...

In a spectacle that could rival Star Wars, astronomers have uncovered a breathtaking cosmic event dubbed the "Cosmic Joust," where two galaxies are merging 3.6 billion light-years ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope yielded the largest galaxy group sample ever observed after scanning a patch of sky known as ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope have collected first-of-its-kind evidence for cloud formation on ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...