A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

The Dutch-led team used NASA's Webb Space Telescope and a telescope in Chile to observe a young star some 1,370 light-years ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...

As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States — before floodwaters catastrophically rose in ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

NASA's new PUNCH spacecraft captured colorful images of the zodiacal light while testing out their sun-watching instruments.

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...

Daniel is Principal Investigator of the Alien Earths team, a large interdisciplinary NASA-funded research group exploring how habitable exoplanet form. He also leads Project EDEN, a search for ...

Chemical signs of life have been detected on a planet known as K2-18b, which is 124 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers discover signs of possible alien life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away “This is a revolutionary moment,” one of the researchers said at a press conference on Tuesday.