The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first shots of the universe Monday, showcasing colorful nebulas, stars and ...

The biosignatures were rooted in tentative detections, and this sparked debate amongst astronomers, who were skeptical about ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

There’s always going to be a way to make something abiotically.” With these words, chemist Eleanor Browne of the University ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Who thought a distant planet could hold the secret to the universe? K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light-years away, recently set ...

NASA’s Webb captures the Sombrero Galaxy in near-infrared, revealing hidden stars and dusty features in stunning detail.

A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had detected just a hint, a ...

While the molecules identified on K2-18b by the April study — dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS — are associated largely with microbial organisms on our planet ...

K2-18b, classified as a "Hycean" world, is a super-Earth exoplanet, meaning it's larger and more massive than Earth, that orbits a red dwarf star called K2-18.

This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, revisit the Dead Sea Scrolls’ age, and more.