The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

NASA is preparing to launch its exoplanet telescope Pandora and it got a step closer on Monday. In a statement, the agency announced that it has chosen Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the telescope that ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks ...

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

His concept was for a space telescope dedicated to detecting extrasolar planets ... unlike any planet in the Solar System. Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? NASA launches mission to ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...