An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

For decades, astronomers believed that planets couldn’t form in the early universe due to a lack of heavier elements like ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.