The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

Like all bureaucracies in Washington, NASA could use some streamlining—but cutting critical missions runs counter to the Trump administration’s mission to make America’s place in space great again.

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 23, 2025, to study ...

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ...

So do China and Russia. Here’s what you need to know about America’s new lunar-energy race ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

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