NASA's new planet-hunting satellite will seek out new Earth-like worlds over the next two years. Called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the satellite searches for planets which transit in front of a star, causing a dip in its...

There are many planets in the universe, but very few of them have qualities to support life Taking one celestial body at a time and determining whether it supports life would be slow and inefficient. So, astronomers look for certain...

The TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system has seven earth-like planets and is only 39 lightyears away! I am joined by Professor Adam Burgasser and Dr. Katherine Deck, both astrophysicists on the Nature paper to discuss the discovery of this...

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The search for life beyond our solar system has taken an exciting turn, after a Belgian-led team reported finding planets with the potential to host life. Fox News reports that a team of Belgian astronomers have discovered three new...

A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on November 15, 2016.

This Video explore five fun facts about the solar system.

In this video, we learn about ancient astronomers' beliefs regarding the solar system and how they believed Earth was the center with the sun and other bodies revolving around it. It also highlights the role of gravity in keeping the...

n this episode of Gravity Assist, NASA’s Jim Green and Amy Simon discuss Uranus, Neptune, and Neptune’s intriguing moon – Triton -- and what we still have to learn about these mysterious bodies.

Why are missions like OSIRIS-REx bringing pieces of an asteroid back home?

Wanna know all the reasons Mars will kill you and how we know? I hit up my friend Raquel Nuno who's a planetary geologist to find out.

Sending astronauts to Mars is a daunting prospect. But this will not deter NASA and private companies from trying to put humans on the red planet.

Scientists have found two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf around 120 light-years from Earth, including a “super-Earth,” according to research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics <br<br/>/>

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This clip is from the chapter "Your First Program" of the series "C++ for Beginners".Where to get the IDE

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?

Why do we see only one face of the Moon? What would happen to Earth if the Moon didn't exist? We dive into questions you asked on social media.

Almost everything you could want to know about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus.

A new space telescope could discover thousands of planets. But will they support life? TESS may reveal the next clues to finding out

Oumuamua and Borisov are not the only interstellar interlopers. We know of many more. Here's what we know about them so far.

Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will comprehensively measure the mineral composition of Earth’s mineral dust source regions to help...

Gravitational microlensing events are revealing the mysteries of rogue planets, but what are they, and how does it work? And what role does the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope play in helping us spot more rogue planets in the future?

NASA not only seeks to unravel the secrets of the solar system and the universe, we have a robust program to better understand how Earth works as a system, how it’s changing, and to assist when natural disasters like hurricanes and...

Pluto’s frozen heart of nitrogen ice may be the main driver of the dwarf planet’s winds.

Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva is the co-author on the study about Phosphine on Venus. We ask her some questions from you about the discovery.