The universe contains many surprises and opportunities, including the phenomena of exoplanets.

As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and advance American ...

The infant star in question is named WISPIT 2, and it's located around 437 light-years away with an estimated age of around 5.4 million years old. If that makes this star sound an ...

In 2024, researchers reported another far-off world that smells like rotten eggs. HD 189733b, some 64 light-years from Earth, ...

NASA is putting Mars back in the crosshairs with a first-of-its-kind nuclear mission it says will launch by the end of 2028.

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in Empire ...

Researchers used data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter. Juno remains in good ...

The film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel is a gripping, often hilarious, tour de force through space, and a beautiful story ...

Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

Carnegie scientists used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to look at the molten planet orbiting in the Milky Way's thick disk ...

A scorching lava planet, long dismissed as barren, is hiding an atmosphere that scientists say simply shouldn't exist.

Elon Musk said he was going "make science fiction real" and help push the Earth up a step on the Kardashev scale, on Saturday announcing a new $20 billion chip fabrication plant near Austin called ...