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By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

The asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of about 135,000 miles (about 217,000 km), considered "close" in astronomical ...

NGC 6914 lies nearly 6,000 light years from Earth. It sits along the Milky Way’s crowded plane where gas, stars and dust ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...

NASA to stream Sept. 23 IMAP mission launch aboard SpaceX IMAP to study solar wind and heliosphere science at Lagrange Point ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

The Cygnus XL Cargo Craft arrived at the International Space Station Sept. 19 after a thruster issue delayed the launch by ...

NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of ...