The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is due to lift off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday.
Warnings of another end of the world scenario involving the planet Nibiru have been doing the rounds this week.
Space tourism startup Orion Span is offering guests the opportunity to spend 12 days orbiting the planet.
NASA's flagship rover has now been trundling across the surface of the Red Planet for more than five years.
One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.
A renewed hunt for Earth-like worlds has yielded a haul of 95 previously undiscovered extrasolar planets.
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
The dinosaurs' total domination of our planet may have played a major role in their eventual demise.
It is looking increasingly likely that the Trappist-1 system's seven worlds could be home to alien life.
A lack of carbon monoxide on a methane-rich world could indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life.
The next generation telescope will enable us to directly study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
The disconcertingly-shaped space rock was last seen hurtling past our planet back in October 2015.
The space agency has made an important new exoplanet discovery using a Google artificial intelligence.
The space agency will be making an announcement on Thursday about its latest groundbreaking discovery.
Our planet is making a continuous low humming sound and nobody is quite sure what is causing it.
Scientists believe that interstellar dust streams might be able to transfer organisms between planets.
Situated just 11 light years away, Ross 128 b is shaping up to be a promising place to look for life.
Thousands of scientists from 184 countries have issued a stark warning about the future of our planet.
A mysterious world 4,000 times more massive than the Earth has been found lurking 22,000 light years away.
Observations of our closest neighboring star have revealed the possible presence of multiple planets.