Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

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 ...

TWO huge planets will be visible in Irish skies today in a display only seen every fifteen years. Saturn will be visible to people over the weekend as a bright star in the sky. And Venus will pass ...

Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both ...