Humanity’s drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers’ wheels ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Since the 1970s, Voyager 1 has been making groundbreaking discoveries. But its journey is far from over, and it's still ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet." It might sound hard to believe, but NASA's exoplanet count just reached 6,000 — and that's with only about 30 years of ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

The three missions launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket the morning of September 24. NASA A SpaceX launch early Wednesday morning sent a trio of spacecraft toward a destination almost one million ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to reach somewhere truly empty? Our first stop is the International Space ...

Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Regardless, it’s an interesting visitor ...