NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Space experts believe that the 'Dracula' disc could offer new insights into planetary formation, especially in massive ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

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Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

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Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...