Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Rare planetary alignments, known as major conjunctions, have coincided with significant events in human history. The recent ...

A planetary magnetic field is produced by a geodynamo effect deep inside a planet. A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel core that comes in two parts, a solid inner core and a molten outer core.

In fact, we already have an example of creatures living in space without a planet: the astronauts aboard ... effect without an atmosphere. So the outer membrane of a free-floating colony of ...

It’s been a while since our planet was rocked by a sucker punch from outer space, but the ancient microbes who jump started ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes Shi En Kim With no conclusive laboratory results, researchers ...

Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming ... in a quest to ...