From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a giant gas planet that has already lost more than one-third of its mass since its ...

In a new study, scientists used advanced computer models to peer beneath Jupiter's dense swirling cloud tops and tackle a ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

In the predawn hours of Jan. 11, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life at Santa Barbara County’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, lifting 40 small satellites, including ...

A Saturn-200 minisatellite, developed by Blue Canyon Technologies—RTX's (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider—successfully launched this week in support of NASA's ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.