Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at ...

Venus reached its maximum brightness on Valentine's Day this year, creating a luminous spectacle in the sky over St. Petersburg, Russia.

The "Mars Sample Return Project" is also under review. As of the 31st of last month, activities of NASA's scientific advisory bodies have also been suspended. This includes scientific committees ...

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

Make time soon to head outside after the sun sets and study the sky. Five of the brightest planets — Venus, Jupiter, Mars, ...

In his book, Sagan wrote: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet.

Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

NASA has completed the engine ground tests on its supersonic jet, which is expected to take to skies later this year. The ...

Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...

A Neptune-sized exoplanet has been detected moving at a record-breaking 1.2M mph, led by a hypervelocity star.

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

Space-lovers can look forward to a rare alignment of seven planets next week as a planetary parade that will be visible ...