NASA is fueling an exciting future for citizen science by funding 25 new projects across diverse fields, from astrophysics to Earth science. These projects empower the public to contribute to ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

On Tuesday evening, six planets will line up in the night's sky - Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Best ...

While white dwarfs are already incredibly dense ... NASA's exoplanet hunter TESS spots a record-breaking 3-star system ...

The WASP-132 system is a unique multi-planetary system. It contains a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star in seven days and three hours; a Super-Earth (a rocky planet six times the mass of the Earth ...

The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

The comet will look like a bright star, shining golden white, and possibly with ... the Sun and then far out into the solar system. Some have long-period orbits taking thousands of years, while ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...