NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth like planet ever discovered, orbiting in the habitable zone of a sunlike star. This video explains why the find is so important, how ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

The curious minds at What If reveal NASA signs of ancient life on Mars, exploring fossils, chemical evidence, and planetary ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

NASA’s AI, ExoMiner++, is scanning TESS data, flagging 7,000 potential exoplanets. Open-source and powerful, it separates ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...

Space scientists have just released spectacular images documenting the death of a star, a process that has been continuously ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...