NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the Curiosity rover driving through the Gale Crater. The spacecraft ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Scientists are using cutting-edge techniques to track water ice on the Moon—an essential resource for future space missions.

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

Astronomers and philosophers have long speculated on the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars.  In the 1990s the ...

If everything goes according to plan, the samples could become the first to be returned to Earth from Mars. They will help ...

Scientists from Cambridge University have detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b using NASA’s ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

Having successfully carried out its three-step lunar exploration of orbiting, landing and sample return from the Earth's ...