The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

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Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

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The study of the universe is a subject that never ceases to amaze the scientific community. If being able to know what is beyond our atmosphere has been something that has always b ...

March’s night sky brings a total lunar eclipse, a rare chance to see Mercury, and shifting planets. Don’t miss these ...

If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...