NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Close-up images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that Mercury’s surface records impacts of almost unimaginable scale ...

It's unlikely you'll be able to walk outside and see a line of planets, but according to NASA, a seven-planet parade happening tonight could be visible in some form in parts of the U.S. The upcoming ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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, ...

It's not too late to see the planet parade. Stargazers will be able to see four or five planets in the night sky with their naked eye this month. A rare seven-planet alignment will reportedly be ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

NASA has discovered a “super-Earth” that may be habitable — and it’s “only” 137 light-years away. “By astronomical standards, that’s not too bad!” the agency insisted on X about the planet dubbed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, has blasted off aboard a rocket from Cape Canaveral. The Kepler telescope rocketed into the night sky late Friday on a historic voyage ...