Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

NASA finds closest twin to Earth 2.0: Kepler-452b. Orbits star every 385 days. 60 per cent larger radius than Earth. Likely mass 5-times that of Earth ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict ...

In 2011, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission sent the Curiosity rover to investigate Mars' past potential to host life. Not. long after landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater in August ...