NASA’s telescopes have confirmed the discovery of a faint moon hiding in the planet’s glare. This finding expands our picture of the outer solar system and challenges what we know about planetary ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant planets are awaiting confirmation.

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s 32% and Mars ’ 25%. It’s unlikely that the core actually formed like this.

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP.

Scientists witness planetary evolution in action as WISPIT 2b emerges within a cosmic nursery hundreds of light-years away.

Nicole Rayl, Associate Director for Flight Programs at NASA joins us to talk about this exciting mission. Social media car stunt challenges turn deadly What Jimmy Kimmel said on his first night back ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining life.

For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser Hosted by: S. Randall Written by: A. Briggs, S.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of ...