Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 million kilometers (307 million miles). That's more than twice the ...

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the planet actually emits more energy than it receives from the Sun. This subtle ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away that could harbor liquid water. Early data suggests hints of ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals a giant hand stretches across the cosmos within the Eagle Nebula, showing unprecedented insight into how stars are born.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new images of Sagittarius B2, the largest star-forming cloud near the Milky Way's center.

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic fields.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of Sagittarius B2, a highly active star-forming region near the Milky Way's center. Ut ...

Featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a lenticular galaxy called NGC 4753 with intricate cosmic dust structures. Here on Earth, dust is a collection of small particles ...