We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...

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

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

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