If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

New research shows that ice in space, once thought to be fully amorphous, may contain up to 25% tiny crystalline structures—altering theories on planet formation and the delivery of life’s building ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond ...

Shubhanshu Shukla’s space odyssey as part of the commercial mission to the International Space Station has set the stage for achieving India’s own ambitions of human spaceflight – Gaganyaan – and ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...