Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Astronomers have observed a free-floating planet accreting massive amounts of gas and dust, shedding new light on planetary formation.

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, ...

Recent research has challenged the traditional view that water on planets must be delivered from space, suggesting instead ...

A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

The observations expand the range of environments where habitable worlds might emerge. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most ...

Astronomers say the water that fills Earth's oceans — and the stuff you use to brew your morning cup of coffee or tea — may ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...