Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The waning crescent moon will appear nestled close to Venus and Regulus, one of the brightest stars in the constellation Leo.

Scientists say this does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets awaiting confirmation. The post NASA ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

TWO huge planets will be visible in Irish skies today in a display only seen every fifteen years. Saturn will be visible to people over the weekend as a bright star in the sky. And Venus will pass ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...