This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Witness Neptune aurora glow display through the lens of the James Webb Telescope, advancing our understanding of space phenomena ...