Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

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 ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

An interstellar comet passing through the solar system contains a surprising mix of chemicals, findings that could help ...

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

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

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

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

The answers are: We've got some awesome natural displays from space. You're going to see Venus brightly shining in the sky, as well the star known as Regulus, which is also in the constellation Leo ...