While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Discover the epic 9-year journey of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it races through the solar system to uncover Pluto’s ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently discovered a rare exoplanet, whose composition has baffled scientists ...

Technically, the sun is a G-type main-sequence star — specifically, a G2V star. The "V" indicates that it is a dwarf, Tony ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...