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A billion years ago, our ancestors were amoeba-like creatures fond of engulfing paramecium-like creatures. "Exoplanet statistics tell us all stars are orbited by some kind of planetary systems. The planets in the Alpha Centauri system are about a bill

The head of Russia's space agency also threatened to detach the Russian segment of the space station.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018. TESS is good at finding exoplanets, but the spacecraft is a powerful scientific

As NASA engineers align and test the mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope, they've shared its first composite image of an Ursa Major star.

The second one is a real lightweight, at only a quarter of Earth's mass.

Work for the James Webb Space Telescope is just beginning after was successfully deployed on Jan. 8.

Affectionately known as 'our eye on the Universe', the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has opened its "eye" and returned its first images from spacea major operational milestone for the spacecraft and DART team.

The observatory's trouble-free Christmas Day launch and two early course corrections could push its operational life well past the 10-year mark, the agency said.

What's the massive observatory doing now? Here's how to find out.

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The antenna assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully tested as it continues its journey to its final observing spot, located one million miles away from Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N

As space agencies launch new telescopes, rovers and probes to look for habitable planets and alien life beyond Earth, a British priest has been helping Nasa to

It was a moment so highly anticipated and so long-delayed that it seemed surreal: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finally got off the ground.

Scientists propose so-called land planets have a better chance at sustaining alien life than Earth-like water worlds.

This recent finding signified that the Red Planet could contain deeper water stores covered by dust.

On April 28, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe reached the sun's extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and spent five hours there. The spacecraft is the first to enter the outer boundaries of our sun.

On Dec. 11, NASA expects asteroid 4660 Nereus to be at its closest point to Earth over a twenty year period.

UFOS buzzing warships and being reported by US pilots could be of alien origin.

NASA's Juno snapped the first photo of the north pole of Europa, Jupiter's icy moon.