Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer Marc Hon.

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking science.

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Researchers have developed an AI model that identifies star system that could be harborbing an Earth-like exoplanet.

K2-18b is a little over 120 light-years from Earth — on a galactic scale, this world is practically in our backyard.

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars.

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...