Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already captured some incredible images of our universe, with some game-changing insights to boot. But researchers at New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...