A planet 140 light-years away is disintegrating fast—losing a Mount Everest’s mass daily. Its 9-million-km rocky tail marks a ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars' past atmosphere. Scientists discovered ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...