A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth.

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been used to shed new light on the exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, which is more than eight times ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

It was an audacious idea, a decade before any such planets had been found. Borucki had been developing the concept since the 1970s and was under pressure to stop wasting NASA resources.

The planet, if it is indeed a planet, is one of the most massive ever detected around a small star. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a relatively low-mass star has been ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost ...

Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...