Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

Along with researching gravitational waves, Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ...

ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

That exoplanet is 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. It's described as much larger than Earth but smaller than ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A discovery by NASA's space telescope led astronomers to claim the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life has been uncovered ...

A new study suggests we could be a step closer to figuring out if alien life is out there, trillions of miles away from Earth ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.