The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...

MANY moons before he became the world’s most famous spaceman, long before his talks and books and music started inspiring people to think ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

NASA’s Perseverance crushed Martian rocks, revealing minerals linked to ancient water. This innovative “rock smooshing” ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...

One such instrument is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) whose speciality is infrared and it helps show things in the universe that have remained hidden so far. Notably, the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured this phenomenon. A separate team using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered BD+054868Ab, the nearest disintegrating exoplanet to ...