Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

"Consider a hypothetical solar system where all the planets reside within the star's habitable zone, potentially supporting ...

In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...

The Moon, Venus, and Saturn are expected to briefly align into a rare formation resembling a “smiley face” this week, Nasa ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

A discovery by NASA's space telescope led astronomers to claim the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life has been uncovered ...

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...

The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a ...