NASA’s tally of alien worlds has just hit 6,000 — a staggering milestone reached in only three decades of searching beyond our solar system. From gas giants to rocky super-Earths, the discoveries ...

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission focused on studying changes in the exosphere, the Earth’s outermost ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

Scientists at the University of St Andrews discovered ions in solar flares can hit 60 million°C—6.5 times hotter than thought ...