Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. Four ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Each time biosignatures are found, biologists confront the ambiguous distinction between life and non-life, and the ...

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... the Hubble Space Telescope. These conditions classify the exoplanet as being in what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone — where planets ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet’s atmosphere ... Unlike the older Hubble telescope, which orbited Earth, Nasa’s James Webb ...

K2-18b is an exoplanet — a planet outside the solar system ... It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in 2015. In 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope found that its atmosphere contains signs ...