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 ...

Mount Maunganui College will become a hub of scientific inspiration next Wednesday, September 24. The school will host a ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system. This milestone reflects decades of cumulative discoveries ...

NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover.

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, ...

It's been 30 years since the discovery of the first planet around another star like our Sun. With every new discovery, ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Hello everyone! There will be some lovely conjunctions in the early morning sky this week so I hope you can go out around 5 a ...

Who would have thought we could map hidden parts of the galaxy by looking at the composition of tiny crystals in Earth’s ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.