The universe contains many surprises and opportunities, including the phenomena of exoplanets.

Skyfall will fly on Space Reactor-1 Freedom, which will demonstrate "advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space." ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

New data from NASA’s almost-retired Juno orbiter has revealed that lightning bolts on Jupiter are significantly more powerful than previously thought.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a new class of exoplanet, L 98-59 d, which features a permanent magma ocean and ...

Using NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, astronomers have observed remnants of the eruption of Nova Persei 1901. As a result, ...

A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have ...

President Donald Trump and his NASA administrator are reviving the Pluto debate again — apparently at the urging of “Star ...

Pluto lost its planetary status in 2006. Nearly two decades later, people are still arguing about it — and now the argument ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

Kepler-51 is a young G-dwarf star hosting three super-puffs and one low-mass non-transiting exoplanet. Kepler-51d, the ...

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman just urged the president to ‘make Pluto great again’—but Trump doesn’t have the power to do ...