Only 370 people have been selected by NASA as astronauts, making it an extraordinarily small and elite group composed mostly of men. The latest additions — revealed during a ceremony at NASA's Johnson ...

SpaceX will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), and you ...

The number of alien planets is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), based in Pasadena, California. But ...

NASA will announce the first class of astronauts in four years who could one day be eligible for missions to the moon and Mars.

India plans "bodyguard satellites" to protect its fleet from collisions, cyberattacks, and geopolitical threats in space.

IIT Bombay is set to propel India into the deep space race with its ambitious ‘Daksha’ mission, aiming to launch two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

The Indira Gandhi Science Complex in Patna is launching a new virtual reality theatre this month, featuring 25 motion chairs for immersive experiences ...

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh’s most visited museum and one of the four Carnegie Museums, is now ...