Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of specialized instruments, allows it to detect very faint emissions coming from ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

But a combination of telescopes all over the world ... Michael Orso/Getty Images, FILE The first planet was detected using a 27-foot diameter telescope at the European Space Observatory’s ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic photography ...

A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on March 11, and ...

2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet ... Combination of Cosmic Processes ...