A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.

The number is monitored by NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), based at Caltech’s IPAC in Pasadena, California. There are more than 8,000 additional candidate planets awaiting confirmation, ...

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New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

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

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...