New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

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

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

Could This Distant Planet Be Home to Alien Life? Scientists may have just found a planet eerily similar to Earth — and it’s only 40 light-years away! Meet Trappist-1e, a rocky exoplanet orbiting a ...

Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old ...

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 ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in025. Billions more are waiting to be ...

"These features were completely unexpected and, at present, are completely unexplained," Professor Tom Stallard said.

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

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major leap in space exploration and the search for life beyond Earth.

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