The planet is part of a planetary system about 40 light-years away from Earth called TRAPPIST-1, which five Belgian ...

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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 ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments ...

When Anil Menon launches into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket next June, he'll bring two decades of experience as a ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

NASA is collaborating with the Colorado Army National Guard at its training center in Gypsum to help Artemis astronauts ...

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

For decades the Moon was seen as a finished chapter in space exploration, but today it has returned to the center of global attention with new missions, groundbreaking discoveries, and a revived space ...