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

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

What if Uranus and Earth were on a collision course? This video explores the science behind planetary collisions and shows ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun’s solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...