There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A piece of outer space history is coming to Davenport ... There will be images of stars, galaxies and ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

The smooth, planet-less disk of the Vega star system challenges planetary formation theories, suggesting alternative cosmic ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

“Like the icy moons in our outer solar ... The host stars they orbit don’t give out as much heat as we get from our own Sun, and it’s thought that the planets are receiving internal heat instead.

Although it took forty years to produce 10,000 pieces of softball-sized space debris, that amount doubled over the next ten years, largely due to accidents and willful neglect. Most of the debris ...