The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

On any given night, it's likely that knowledgeable stargazers will be able to spot at least one bright planet shining in the night sky. Because they don't happen every year, such cosmic displays ...

Pandora will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than this fall ... and obtain near-infrared spectra of the transiting planet," NASA officials said in Monday's statement.

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock.

Around the galaxy exist stars that have been given a push, and orbit much faster than the vast majority of their stellar ...

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To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

but the sight of four or five brilliant planets at once is less common, according to NASA. On Feb. 28, seven planets – Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars – will align ...

Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own Jason Steffen Princeton Univ. Press (2024) In the mid-1980s, NASA engineer William Borucki faced ...

The upcoming spring exhibition at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, opening Saturday, invites museum patrons to immerse ...

This technique helps identify: Exoplanets are more than just distant worlds; they hold clues to planetary formation, atmospheric dynamics, and the conditions necessary for life. NASA has confirmed ...