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 ...

Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

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.

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to capture unprecedented details of the extensive debris ...

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 ...

This month, catch planetary views of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, witness a close pass of the Parker Solar Probe by Venus, and ...