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 official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sep 18, 2025, 09:28pm EDT Sep 18, 2025, 09:29pm EDT Four ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Temperatures on the planet could make water theoretically possible. Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — NASA is launching three new spacecrafts into orbit to better understand our solar system, sun, and planet. NOAA-Senior Scientist for Space Weather, Dr. James Spann, joined ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...