Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

Nestled 1,000 light-years from Earth, a massive, chaotic disk is offering scientists a unique glimpse into the birthplace of ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the biggest planet-forming disk ever discovered. The finding reveals violent chaos ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...

With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

Oceans hiding within the crusts of distant moons are tantalizing targets for scientists looking for life beyond Earth ...