NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting ready to fly within 2,500 miles of the planet Jupiter later on today.
The discovery of an Earth-like world around Proxima Centauri has spurred on efforts to send a probe there.
NASA's exploratory rover has recorded an impressive panoramic image from the surface of the Red Planet.
Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet within a neighboring star system.
These carnivorous ocean-dwellers are now thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet.
A huge space rock almost half a mile wide has the potential to hit our planet within the next 200 years.
Manganese found inside rocks on Mars could mean that the Red Planet once had oxygen in its atmosphere.
Scientists have been attempting to determine why the dwarf planet Ceres has no large craters at all.
Scientists have identified two distant worlds which could be ideal places to look for alien life.
Astronomers have identified a previously unknown dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system.
The newly discovered exoplanet experiences days lasting up to 140 Earth-years thanks to its trio of suns.
A Cambridge scientist maintains that there may be far more planets in the solar system than we realize.
Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet in a distant binary star system.
NASA's latest interplanetary spacecraft will be entering in to orbit around Jupiter on July 4th.
A new study has suggested that the universe is likely to be teeming with extraterrestrial life forms.
Moon Ribas can feel every earthquake on the planet through a special seismic sensor implanted in her arm.
Despite being comparable in size to Pluto and Eris, this enigmatic world has yet to even be given a name.
The incredible new haul has more than doubled the total number of known extrasolar worlds to over 3,200.
Astronomers have identified three new terrestrial worlds around a relatively close 'ultracool' star.
Scientists have been exploring ambitious new ways to effectively cool, rather than to warm up the planet.