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 ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or simple life forms” to Earth themselves, to “propel evolution”, said the ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

The federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases depends on a 2009 scientific determination. The Trump ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered "dark oxygen" produced by deep-sea polymetallic nodules deep below sea level, redefining our ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

The best-selling author of the Strange Planet series, Nathan Pyle, is in town touring for his first children's book. He'll be visiting schools Thursday and signing books Friday at the DaVinci Science ...

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

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