Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

SpaceX is set to launch NASA's Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on January 11, 2026, using a Falcon 9 rocket from ...

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...