The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, ...
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...
For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
Step inside Sunita Williams’ space mission with this thrilling excerpt from 'Space: The India Story', capturing her ...
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Longest commercial Moon mission using Firefly’s composites-intensive Blue Ghost lander completes more than 346 hours of ...