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The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

During a total solar eclipse, the bright disk of the Sun is blocked, and the faint outer atmosphere becomes visible. It is ...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...

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 ...

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

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

Today, let's talk about a lesser-known but incredibly interesting object — Titania, the most unconventional satellite among ...

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.