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

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

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

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

New research based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the dwarf planet Ceres may have once possessed a deep, ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Right after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, crop scientist Inbal Becker-Reshef got a letter from officials in Kyiv.

Ed Sheeran revealed he declined an offer to perform the first gig in space: “I want to go to space when it’s like flying to ...

The MoonSwatches are supposed to be balls-to-the-wall fun, so adding a tiny gold-coated adornment to one feels like trying to ...

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 ...

The polar vortex itself forms because of Mars’s tilted axis, which creates seasons much like Earth’s. Each northern winter, a ...