Latest US Space News and Discoveries MAVEN Mission Launched to Mars. It was on November 18, 2013, that NASA sent the MAVEN ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

"Over time, the rays will darken to the shade of the surrounding regolith as the material is exposed to space weathering," ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

"It represents a major step forward in how we think about the search for distant worlds capable of hosting life." Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged ...

An ancient fragment of bone discovered in the Crimean cave of Starosele is changing what we think about how and where Neanderthals migrated. The fragment, now known as Star 1, turned out to be ...

Recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed compelling evidence of a giant planet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the nearest stellar system to the Sun. Led by ...