The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

Based on the most likely pathway, the total biomass of the moon, if it has any, will probably be less than an average human.

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts for decades. But when you start to grapple with ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish ...