Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...

Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...

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 ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

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 ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

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 ...