Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

We have mapped and discovered a large portion of the most dangerous asteroids in the Solar System, but there is a glaring ...

Mercury will be farthest from the sun on Tuesday (Aug. 19), granting early risers a perfect opportunity to spot the fleet-footed world somewhat separated from the glare of our parent star. Mercury ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...

Astronomers have identified a rare and unusually fast asteroid racing through the inner solar system. Known as 2025 SC79, the ...

Jaw-dropping scenes show a "train" of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites in orbit - along with an impressive aurora. NASA ...