In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first known ...

A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known ...

Life showed up really early on Earth – it needed complex carbon molecules to do so. A new discovery hints that these ...

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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet ...

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NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way to explore a moon of Jupiter that researchers believe may be one of the best ...

Since its launch in late 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has raised the possibility that we could detect signs of ...

The historic probes are the farthest human-made objects from Earth. Just how far they've gone will blow your mind.

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

Using the Webb telescope to peer back into the earliest periods of the universe, researchers spotted a handful of some of the ...

An asteroid's orbit may reveal an invisible fifth force that could rewrite the rules of physics. Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid ...