It's unlikely you'll be able to walk outside and see a line of planets, but according to NASA, a seven-planet parade happening tonight could be visible in some form in parts of the U.S. The upcoming ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

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NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) handily beat its goals. The space agency has revealed that its spacecraft has spotted over 2,200 potential planets since beginning its mission in ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The researchers at NASA’s Frontier Development Lab (FDL) in ...

You may have heard about a "parade of planets" that was set to grace the early morning skies on Monday morning with a rare celestial event. But if you missed it, don't worry – experts say you were ...

The millennia-old search for extraterrestrial life has, so far, yielded little in the way of scientifically useful results. As far as humanity can prove, ET is purely hypothetical. Yet there are more ...

Rogue planets, adrift in the cosmos, may be six times more common than those orbiting stars, a new study proposes. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) In elementary school, you might ...

Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed a new class of planets that have the density of cotton candy. Because their hydrogen-helium atmospheres balloon out, these ...