Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The research, published last month in the journal GeoHealth, focuses on 10 components of Mars dust and the hazards they're ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists confirm the celestial lights on one of the most mysterious planets in our ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

"This mission, the Fram2 mission, is going to be the first all-civilian free-flyer mission to orbit the poles of Earth, which makes it very unique," Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta said. He is the vice chair of ...