Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a fascinating new exoplanet a mere 30 light-years away from our solar system. What sets ...

Exoplanets, celestial bodies that orbit stars beyond the familiar confines of our solar system, continue to captivate scientists around the world. Their diverse and often unexpected attributes offer ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

VIPER was originally supposed to land on the moon in late 2023 aboard Griffin, a lander built by Pittsburgh-based company ...

SpaceX just sent two dozen more of its Starlink internet satellites to space. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 24 Starlink craft ...

Chinese team uses FAST, the world's most sensitive radio telescope, to search for technosignatures from the potentially habitable TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system.

New simulations suggest Earthlike planets may be much more typical than previously thought whereas water worlds may not.