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, ...

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

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and global ...

Chants of "Save NASA!" echoed through downtown Washington, D.C., Monday(Sept. 15) as agency workers and supporters rallied ...

NASA is launching a powerful trio of space missions to protect Earth from space weather! On September 23rd, a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

According to Dean Duffy, the new NASA administrator, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover was the "clearest sign ...

The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...