The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

NASA has released new images of a 'city-destroying' asteroid hurtling through space. This asteroid has a ...