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 ...

Dr. Eric Christian shares the importance of the IMAP mission and how it will play a part in the Artemis moon missions.

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Have you ever thought about how we would know if other planets have life on them? How could we tell that life existed on a planet from afar, without actually landing on it? Well, 30 years ago, an ...

The Earth Fire Alliance, a global nonprofit, has partnered with Muon Space and Google to launch FireSat — the world’s first fleet of more than 50 satellites designed to scan the entire planet in near ...

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

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 ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...