Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.

Theoretical physicist Abhay Ashtekar is famous for having worked on an idea for how space-time itself is generated. So we ...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Asteroids not only represent a potential threat to humanity, they also offer great opportunities, especially for the future.

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...