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Recent exoplanet exploration has focused on the discovery of temperate rocky planets like the Earth, which are often called habitable planets. Most of the recent missions are targeting stars cooler than the sun. Such stars are known as red dwarfs or M-typ

SpaceX believes Hubble can be boosted using its Dragon spacecraft.

DART went out with a bang.

On Monday (Sept. 26) at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT), if all goes well, NASA's DART spacecraft will crash into the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to alter the moonlet's trajectory.

Perseverance has collected four rock samples from an ancient river delta where organisms might have thrived.

The presence of organic molecules does not necessarily mean there was once life on the Red Planet, but scientists are eager to figure out how to get them back to Earth for analysis.

A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem likely to be in the habitable zone and one of them could be the second most habitable exoplanet discovered so far

Scientists may have just discovered one of the most hospitable planets to life to date.

A potentially habitable water-rich world just 100 light-years away from Earth could be one of the best places to search for life.

An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Universit de Montral and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars

How our view of reality might change overnight

Scientists have discovered a Super-Earth that is four times the mass of our planet and takes just 10.8 days to complete a whole year.

After releasing the deepest image of the universe on July 11, NASA revealed four more groundbreaking finds from the James Webb Space Telescope, including two nebulae, a quintet of galaxies, and water signatures from an exoplanet.

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webbs First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.

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Researchers have their eye on a massive sunspot measuring more than 6,100 miles wide, which could prompt a radio blackout-inducing solar flare.

The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas morning and is now about 1 million miles from Earth -- ready to send back its first color images.

NASA said a rocket of unknown national origin that crashed into the moon earlier this year produced a double crater on the surface, an unexpected feat. The agencys Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, wh

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

The huge sunspot has the potential to send a solar flare our way. Whether it will or not remains to be seen.