On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

This week, learn why experts are divided over an exoplanet, see the first footage of a colossal squid in its deep-sea habitat ...

A new planet like Star Wars' Tatooine detected outside of our solar system may orbit two failed stars ... which is less likely to happen if they circled each other. The brown dwarf pair was first ...

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that ...

A mere 48 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus is an exoplanet that has been defying scientists attempts to understand it.

As we attempt to become a multi-planet species recent research has mapped a “interstellar tunnel” from our solar system pointing ... were able to map in detail our LHB and create a 3D model ...

Titan remains a quiet, icy planet with a hint of life below its surface until then. Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are representing themselves as affiliates ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

NASA explained this phenomenon of the four planets: "The closest to the star, HR 8799 e, orbits 2.4 billion kilometers from its star, which in our solar system would be located between the orbits ...