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A Neptune-sized exoplanet with a 'substantial atmosphere' and the potential for water has been identified in deep space, 90 light-years from Earth.

Look up! But don't forget your solar eclipse glasses.

Nelson added that he does not believe the UFOs are evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. "I think I would know" if that were the case, Nelson said. But, he acknowledged, it'd be premature to rule that out as a possibility.

Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his program questioning the military's response to the unknown space threats reported in various media outlets in recent days, noting the dismissal of Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier.

With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.

Despite what you might have read, the claims about life on Mars are shoddy and unscientific.

Mushrooms are proof of life, as they are fungus, and scientists prove that those are it in the recent Mars photos.

On Wednesday, SpaceX launched and successfully landed an early Mars rocket prototype at its facility in South Texas. SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, announced the rocket's first successful landing on Twitter, writing "Starship landing nominal!

Ingenuity aced its fourth-ever Martian flight this morning (April 30), going farther and faster than it ever had before.

New video from NASAs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars.

The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers).

Just minutes after NASA's Perseverance Mars rover nailed its touchdown on the Red Planet, the spacecraft sent back the first two images of its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

Strange things are happening at the outer edges of our solar system. An object up to ten times the mass of Earth is pulling others towards it. Is it a planet, or something else?

"The system exists against the odds," said Brian Powell, a data scientist at NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center about the source of starlight that was mysteriously brightening and dimming some 1,900 light-years awa

In the vein of "go big or go home," the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new website to showcase information about — and match the scale of — its Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the highly anticipated observ

NASA declared the InSight Mars digger dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.

Red dwarf stars are the most common kind of star in our neighbourhood, and probably in the Milky Way. Because of that, many of the Earth-like and potentially life-supporting exoplanets we've detected are in orbit around red dwarfs. The problem is that

A Harvard professor says we were visited by an alien life form in 2017 and we should be ready for more.

According to statements made by JAXA, the samples returned by the Hayabusa 2 mission included black sand and gases obtained from the asteroid itself. The post Even the Outside of Hayabusa 2's Sample Capsule has Asteroid Debris on it appeared first on

Strange radio transmissions appear to be coming from our nearest star system; now scientists are trying to work out what is sending them