The discovery of water ice around a distant star is allowing scientists to study how the key ingredient for life is delivered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged the core of star cluster IC 348, where astronomers discovered three free-floating brown ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

James Webb Space Telescope Sees Jupiter's Rings, Moons and Auroras Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: NASA, ESA, Jupiter ...

There is an object flying through space about 20 light-years from Earth that has intrigued astronomers for quite a while. It ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Scientific American spoke with the astronomer who has contributed to the discovery of two thirds of Saturn’s known moons ...

Even at the present time, when humanity possesses extremely modern giant ground observatories, as well as advanced space ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...