A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...
NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...
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, ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...