“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

It wasn’t until the ‘90s that our astronomical powers advanced enough to confirm the existence of worlds around other stars.

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule ...

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed ...

In a recent development, NASA has identified a colossal structure breaking through the atmosphere of Mars. This discovery has sparked a flurry of speculation about the structure’s origin and purpose.

NASA recently announced that its Perseverance Mars rover discovered rock material containing potential biosignatures, with ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...