Astronomers used JWST’s coronagraphs in a unique way to capture new images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has ...

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

(Think about trying to spot an airplane in a sunlit sky—if the plane appears too close to the Sun, your eyes ... light is an exoplanet named after its star. (In the above image, NASA has placed ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space ... Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...

After NASA’s marooned astronauts arrived home in a SpaceX capsule this week, the agency was quick to chart a costly and test-intensive future for the very vehicle that had left the crew trapped ...

A group of attendees of the joint NASA-USGS workshop, Planetary Subsurface Exploration for Science and Resources, gathers for a photo at NASA's Ames Research Center on Feb. 11, 2025. Workshop ...

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida after an unexpectedly long stay on the space station. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...