The Kepler telescope has looked up in perfect silence at the stars and found more than 1,200 new worlds. NASA said Tuesday that Kepler, constantly searching the cosmos for "exoplanets" circling other ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary exoplanet circling a pulsar, a remnant of a exploded massive star. Named PSR ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

NASA researchers have identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet discovered to date, orbiting a sun-like star in the habitable zone. This video explains why the find matters and how upcoming ...

Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

It is true that astronomers discovered "a relatively short-lived quasi-satellite of Earth" and dubbed it 2025 PN7, according ...

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new evidence of chemical activity on Mars that could suggest the planet was once habitable. Samples of mudstones from the Jezero crater – an ancient basin long ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UK scientists have found an atmosphere on a red hot planet 280 light years away, in the ...