The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

What if everything we know—the stars, the galaxies, the expanding fabric of space-time—isn’t floating in a limitless void, ...

Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until now, that is.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Astrobiologists investigating extraterrestrial life first became excited about K2-18b in 2023 when data from the new James ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of ...