Scientists say the findings help explain how life can exist in extreme environments using the chemical compound methane instead of sunlight.

On Episode 173 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik look back at the week in space news.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover two groundbreaking findings: strong evidence of a ...

It's wild to me that Beauty and the Beast was in theaters when scientists accepted the theory that a meteor killed the ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — The Perseid meteor shower is peaking Wednesday night and it can bring up to 75 shooting stars an ...

Even the Alien franchise has transformed over the years, from the haunted-house-in-space horrors of 1979's Alien, to the ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

Boy, how the world has changed over the past 10 years, but perhaps not as profoundly as our understanding of another, more ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

When Scientific American published its very first issue 180 years ago this month, our view of the cosmos was substantively different. Closer to home, astronomers were wildly guessing about how our ...