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 ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

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

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

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

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The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

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