Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...

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 ...

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

TRAPPIST-1e, 40 light-years away, may have an Earth-like atmosphere, raising hopes for habitability beyond our solar system.

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

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

Water once flowed through asteroid Ryugu and possibly in early solar system, Japanese researchers claim Experts have ...

Researchers discovered wild chimps in Africa who consume fermenting fruit as a majority of their diet -- the equivalent of having a couple drinks a day. Brad tells us more about drunken chimps in ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic journey. A Harvard professor made headlines theorizing our visitor is a ...