The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan's team has detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on exoplanet K2-18b, a potential biosignature produced by living organisms like marin ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

One of the great mysteries that humanity has been pursuing since time immemorial is whether there is life beyond our planetary frontier. Many people are tirelessly investigating th ...

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find emissions from ...

The entire universe may be rotating, like its individual parts do, potentially explaining the “Hubble tension,” which perplexes scientists.