NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

This image captured by Nasa's Cassini craft shows the ... "life-forms that consume organic material". The planet is described as being "Earth-like on the surface", but it's the ocean where life ...

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A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Needham native and astronaut Sunita Williams, along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, spoke Monday for the first time ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

NASA's vast archive of science data, over 100 petabytes and counting, is proving to be a timeless treasure trove for new ...