The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

October's longer nights bring two transits of Titan across Saturn, while Io and Europa tango together across Jupiter three ...

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...

An Oct. 6 full harvest moon will be the first of 3 supermoons that will appear in the night sky over the rest of 2025.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...