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 ...

A mysterious crater on Pluto may not be the result of an ancient impact but rather the collapsed caldera of a massive icy ...

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

Outer space is my Roman Empire: I am on some level obsessing about it whenever I have a free moment. I will devour true ...

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

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

The orbit of Ammonite (red line) and the orbits of the other three sednoids (white lines). Ammonite was discovered close to its perihelion, at a distance of 71 astronomical units (71 times the average ...

Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in Hilo discovered a new celestial object that could provide insight into ...

Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea have discovered a new celestial object that could provide groundbreaking insight into the earliest ...