The Parker Solar Probe turned its camera on Venus as the spacecraft flew by during a gravity assist.

For the first time, astronomers have detected the vaporized remains of the crusts of long-dead Earth-like and Mars-like planets in the atmospheres of white dwarf stars.

A new study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy is filled with planets like Earth, containing continents and oceans. If so, life might be common in the Milky Way.

To the extent that we can see them, galaxies in the very early universe should look relatively young and unformed. But galaxy ALESS 073.1 is a surprise to astronomers: it looks more mature than we'd have any reason to expect. Why?

Particles carried from Earth's poles via our planet's magnetosphere could be interacting with lunar rocks to create small quantities of water on the moon.

New research suggests that the famous black hole Cygnus X-1 - first black hole ever detected and one of the closest to Earth - is farther away and much more massive than previously believed.

A new atlas of nearby binary stars plots more than a million pairs and reveals a profusion of identical twins.

Check out this amazing new video from NASA's Perseverance rover, showing its own descent and landing on the surface of Mars last week. Truly, it's like nothing seen before! Also, the first-ever audio from Mars ...

To find alien life in our universe, scientists have considered searches for optical lasers or even giant energy-harvesting structures known as Dyson spheres. Now they're suggesting a more mundane sort of search, a hunt for air pollution in exoplanet atmospheres.

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of a throng of black holes crowding near the center of an ancient globular cluster.