On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

Pluto is probably best known for being a demoted planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped it of its original classification, after narrowing the definition of a planet to be one ...

The space probe began making discoveries even before today's flyby. — -- Three billion miles and nearly ten years of travel led up to the moment NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past Pluto today, ...

France’s top military space official has warned of intensifying "hostile or unfriendly" activity in space, particularly by Russia, joining a growing chorus of Western powers publicly warning about a ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud. When you ...