Third-ever confirmed visitor, dubbed 3I/Atlas and hurtling at 60 kilometers per second after likely being formed in distant ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system. Preliminary observations suggest it came from interstellar space, and if confirmed, ...

I/ATLAS is just the third recorded interstellar object to enter the solar system. However, the scientific consensus is that ...

Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth could have at least six minimoons that we never knew existed. A minimoon is a small ...

The exoplanet, Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth and is located in the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-725. The discovery is published in Nature Astronomy.

Newly discovered Earth-size planet TOI 700 e orbits within the habitable zone of its star in this illustration. Its Earth-size sibling, TOI 700 d, can be seen in the distance.

An international research team led by the Yunnan Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the discovery of a “super-Earth,” offering fresh clues in the search for ...