IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

The halo was first glimpsed in 1972 when Apollo 16 astronauts placed an ultraviolet camera developed by Dr. George Carruthers on the Moon.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

Could This Distant Planet Be Home to Alien Life? Scientists may have just found a planet eerily similar to Earth — and it’s only 40 light-years away! Meet Trappist-1e, a rocky exoplanet orbiting a ...

NASA has named 10 astronaut candidates for its 2025 class—the first in history with a majority of women. Drawn from science, engineering, medicine, and military aviation, they will train for two years ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old ...

Observers mention Comet SWAN as a small, condensed coma with a faint tail. By mid-October, it will become easier to be visible from northern latitudes, climbing steadily higher in the southwest ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in025. Billions more are waiting to be ...