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 added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

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 ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.