As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

Most stars host planets unlike anything in our cosmic neighborhood, reminding us that the universe is richer and more surprising than we have imagined. By untangling the forces that shape these ...

Experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a 'Super-Earth' among the stars known as Kepler-725c, which ...

JWST's stunning image of NGC 346 shows that planets in the early universe didn’t form as quickly as theorists thought.

The current theory of how the Universe came into being can't explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies we see ...