Discovery suggests raw ingredients for life are common in the dusty discs out of which planets are born.

Earth and Mars emerged from the same young solar system around 4.5 billion years ago, yet they may have been assembled ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...

NASA announced on September 17, 2025, that its tally of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000. And this milestone comes just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. NASA ...

A few ounces of black asteroid rubble have become something like a forensic archive of the early solar system. Since NASA’s ...

Super-Earth exoplanets are unlike any planets in our own solar system. They’re larger and more massive than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Those found so far were in orbits close to their stars. But ...

A geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky in parts of the US during the first weekend in October. South Africa’s National Space Agency (Sansa) told reporters that the storm had originated from a solar ...