Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

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 ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

That's at a distance of 1 million miles (1.5 million km) from our own planet ... Aside from directly targeting Earth-like planets, it would also perform a broader range of astrophysics missions ...