A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

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

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, ...

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

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

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NASA researchers reveal that the Sun — long believed to be ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

The previously untold story of the docking system’s reinvention helps explain how Musk and SpaceX built a culture that ...

An eerie blue hand seems to be reaching out across the universe in a recently released image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...