For years, scientists thought they had a good count of the universe’s most extreme objects — supermassive black holes. But a ...

A team of international scientists has discovered a rare cosmic formation which has never been seen before. Only about a dozen Einstein Crosses have been found in the universe to date. This makes them ...

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over 6,000.

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?