University of Bristol astrophysicists are helping shed new light on an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away where liquid water in the form of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will buzz past Mars this week — making its closest pass to any planet on its route as scientists are rushing to coordinate crafts to observe the ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...

AirPods Pro 3 use infrared sensors to monitor heart rate through your ear canal, eliminating the need for chest straps or Apple Watch during workouts.

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien world. These robotic explorers and the NASA science programs behind them are ...

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

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around a distant planet named CT Cha b, located 625 light-years away. This disk is ...

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 ...