The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the approach of a “wandering planet” into our solar system. This ...

Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

Astronomers are buzzing over 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object hurtling through our solar system, and a new theory claims it can create planets.

On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...