NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

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

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...

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

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...