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

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

In this week’s special CEO Series edition of Space Minds, we’re at the World Space Business Week in Paris. In today’s episode ...

New research reveals where the nearest alien civilization may exist, which could be far older than intelligent life on Earth.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a group of European astronomers came together to form an association without precedent in the history of astronomy. Informally known as the Celestial Police (in ...

Scientists studying the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have found hints of an atmosphere. If confirmed, it could be an ...

This quiz invites you to embark on a journey across the galaxy, exploring the science and wonder behind exoplanet discovery.