NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past. Witness live views of Earth from the International Space Station as it ...

Indeed, other planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system do have seasonal cycles — and they can look wildly different from the ones we experience on Earth, experts told Live Science.

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting ... in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time that carbon-based molecules ...

From South Korea's STSAT-1 satellite, which carries the FIMS-SPEAR spectrograph, they identified a far-ultraviolet glow given off by hydrogen molecules in the cloud.This is the first time a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery by definitively confirming the presence of crystalline ...

These molecules, typically produced by life on Earth, offer the strongest evidence yet of possible life beyond our solar system.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ... This was the first time that carbon-based molecules were discovered ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...