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A radio telescope has found evidence that planets might form at the same time as their stars, instead of much later as was previously thought. The telescope detected dark rings ...

Astronomers have discovered two super-Earth exoplanets orbiting a star 11 light-years away from Earth, according to a new ...

Astronomers have discovered a gas giant planet the size of Jupiter circling a star half the size of ...

Scientists confirmed the existence of seven new planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

Here's an incredible image showing the surface of Titan - Saturn's moon.

Stephen Hawking cautions against global isolationism.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a ‘superearth’ planet called GJ 536 b which is not in ...

A few months ago, astronomers announced the existence of a potentially habitable planet outside our solar system. A ...

A new dwarf planet has been discovered hanging out in the far reaches of our solar system.

Is there an ocean under Pluto's surface? A new study suggests that there may indeed be one beneath ...

On Friday, NASA released an audio file which includes radio signals associated with Jupiter's aurora after they have ...

A small asteroid named 2016 QA2 came within 50,000 miles of our planet on Sunday.

A new study out of the U.K. has found evidence that large rivers once flowed in the Arabia ...

See a brief tour of the planet's hummocky cratered uplands, rocky terrains, and cellular nitrogen ice plains, among ...

While working on her bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy, Michelle Kunimoto found four previously unknown planets.

Space agencies have discovered oxygen in Mars's atmosphere—an event which has not occurred since the 1970s.  The Stratospheric ...

NASA selects its team to build a new $10 million gadget that will detect planets outside our solar ...

Astronomers are finding new exoplanets in other parts of the galaxy all the time. So why is it ...

Pluto just never ceases to fascinate. NASA scientists recently discovered the dwarf planet is home to hills that ...

For the first time in more than 10 years, it will be possible to see all five bright ...

Wouldn’t it be great if scientists could make their minds up? One minute they’re telling us our planet ...

Pluto, a celestial oddball, could tell us a lot about the formation of the Solar System. A probe ...

Curiosity’s hard work has once again proven to pay off, turning up evidence that liquid water quite likely ...

Researchers looking for habitable planets in the galaxy are using a model that estimates more planets could support ...

NASA scientists still don’t have a clear picture of the bright spots showing up on the surface of ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the clearest images yet of two of Pluto's moons as it ...

At one point in the history of the Earth, the land was pulled toward the equator. The shift ...