NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...

February evenings are quietly setting the stage for a wide planetary lineup, visible soon after sunset and stretching across ...

HD 137010 b, a new Earth-like planet found 146 light-years away, may be habitable. Discovered by NASA Kepler data, further ...

The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

THE year 2025 will be remembered not as an anomaly but as a juridical moment for the climate era: science no longer merely ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

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