It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered ...

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 ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure diabetes and more.

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

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

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...