When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving life a longer window to take hold on the Red Planet.

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

"This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined. Thus, astrophysicists can now detect exoplanets still nestled within the dust cloud that witnessed their birth, right ...

Morgan L. Cable, who has a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Caltech, has multiple team leadership roles on the Europa Clipper probe recently launched by NASA’s JPL, and helped create its spectrometer ...

The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...