Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features.

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

An international team of astrologers claim to have discovered a 'super Earth' that's bigger than our own blue planet but ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

The James Webb Space Telescope takes a snapshot of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, some 15 million light-years away from Earth. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / A. Adamo Scientists have found an unusual ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

Scientists detect potential biosignatures on a nearby exoplanet, hinting at possible alien life for the first time.