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

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...

NASA research reveals that the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble, may resemble a deflated croissant rather than a comet. This new mode ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

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

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary system. The newfound ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

Today, let's talk about something super mysterious! A detector has discovered an icy comet in the Kuiper Belt, and this has ...