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 ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

NASA recently discovered an exciting new planet called a "Super-Earth," and it’s not too far from us in space terms! This planet is bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and scientists think it ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th ...

China has moved to a favorable geopolitical stance, as one of its mines holds 470,000 tons and thus $200 billion. It's the ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Researchers have discovered ancient time capsules in South America. Specifically, they found amber samples in an Ecuadorian ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

BSN signs agreement to acquire large prospective uranium and rare earth packages in the Mount Isa region of northwest Queensland.

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered whether Earth-like planets are rare gems or commonplace across the stars. Recent ...