With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of other planets out there in the galaxy. But we’re still teasing out clues ...

In the early hours of July 14, a NASA spacecraft will make a historic first encounter with Pluto, the beloved dwarf planet that currently sits about 2.9 billion miles from Earth. The New Horizons ...

Astronomers searching for the faintest glimmers of light beyond distant Pluto say they’ve discovered a new dwarf planet – and that this planetoid’s movements hint that an invisible giant planet ...

An artist's impression of the planetary system surrounding LHS 1903, a small red dwarf star cooler and dimmer than our Sun. (European Space Agency) (CN) — For decades, astronomers thought they had ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.