Titan's shadow will fall on Saturn in the early hours of Sept. 20, one day before the world shines at opposition in Earth's ...

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

Scientists say this does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets awaiting confirmation. The post NASA ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

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 ...

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 ...