The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Whether or not we’re alone in the universe is one of the biggest questions in science. A recent study, led by astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge, suggests the answer might ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Well, here are seven everyday moments that sparked my fascination with space and made me an astrophile! We often think ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

Is there an “I think, therefore I am” Descartes moment for the universe? In their research, the scientists found that a single qubit acting within its phase space (the mathematical set of all ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.