Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated by a supernova explosion approximately 350 years ago. The material glows in ...

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

As a part of its grand plans for outer space domination, China is planning on sending another Chang'e probe next year. The ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The universe is vast and our journey to understand it has just begun.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

One tech company operating in outer space saw its share price rise more than 90% over the past year through Jan. 22. That company is Planet Labs (NYSE: PL), which delivers satellite data about the ...

Nasa says that you won’t need a telescope to see the space giants, but you might need one for Uranus and Neptune (Picture: Nasa) Uranus will be in the same patch of sky as Venus, Mars ...

This month, six planets in the solar system — Mars ... Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others.