Scientists are discovering strange new planets beyond our solar system. These worlds defy old ideas about how planets form ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been searching for exoplanets since its launch in 2018, and it turns out it may have found plenty more of them than we had thought ...

NASA has released an extensive cosmic map of the night sky, created from eight years of data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This image features over 6,000 bright dots ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has reached the jaw-dropping milestone of discovering more than 6,000 new worlds. The joint NASA/ESA mission searches for planets in outer space, potentially looking for a ...

There be dragons on Mars. In some recent snaps taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, dozens of polygon-shaped rocks have appeared, and they look remarkably similar to fossilized reptile scales or, more ...

Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. The main reason for Pluto's demotion is that it's not able to "clear its orbit of debris." Other ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover exploring the surface of the red planet. - Paopano/Shutterstock There be dragons on Mars. In some recent snaps taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, dozens of polygon-shaped ...