The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Outlining plans for living and working on Mars, the space agency is focusing on oxygen, food, water, power, spacesuits, ...

THE explosion of a distant star light years away could be visible to Earthbound stargazers this week. The star system, tucked ...