LOWELL, Massachusetts – NASA on Oct. 1 launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

NASA scientists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery about potential alien life within our own solar system, a finding that could have significant implications for our understanding of ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

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 ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...