Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the Sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear in close conjunction. The arrangement of Venus, Saturn and a slender ...

W hen we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The ...

This extreme expansion poses a serious threat to nearby planets. For example, when the Sun becomes a red giant in about 5 ...

Astrobiologists have been searching the solar system for years, looking for environments that could support life or where it ...

NASA has spotted what looks like green rain on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The moon seems to glow a green color, which is ...

The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, putting on a spectacular show just six hours after the moon hits its third ...

PARIS (NASA/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered compelling evidence of a potential planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young star TWA ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...