About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 35 years in space. Can it still hold its own and prove ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

A discovery by NASA's space telescope led astronomers to claim the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life has been uncovered ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...