NASA would have to close the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and cancel the mission that will bring back samples of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals a new view of planetary death as a planet spirals into its star. The post ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a gas giant self-destructing by spiraling into its young star – a "planetary suicide.” ...

By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope – sort of a postmortem examination ... its red giant phase and could well engulf the innermost planets Mercury and Venus, and maybe even Earth.

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...