Scientists witness planetary evolution in action as WISPIT 2b emerges within a cosmic nursery hundreds of light-years away.

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other exoplanets, specifically Earth-sized exoplanets within the habitable zone, also ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

The idea of ancient life on Mars is a fascinating one, and the Perseverance rover might have found signs of it. But there are some caveats to that discovery.

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a dramatic leap in the search for life since the first discovery just three deca ...

A government shutdown would significantly affect West Virginia through disruption to major federal employers, effects on social services and reduced operation of national parks and forests. The ...

A government shutdown comes with many unknowns, chief among them how long it will last. Some have ended within a day, while the longest stretched 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019. As in ...

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Trump and congressional Democrats braced for a partial shutdown of the federal government as a midnight deadline approached ...

Only the third interstellar object to pass through our solar system, comet 3I/ATLAS is a rarity worth paying attention to, prompting insurance companies to reassess their cosmic risk models No direct ...

NASA’s Chandra telescope found a distant black hole consuming matter at 2.4 times the Eddington limit, revealing how billion-solar-mass giants formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.