Based on data from NASA's K2 mission an international team of scientists have just confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets. This brings the total number of new exoplanets found with the K2 mission up to almost 300.
The Hubble Space Telescope shows a “sparkling jewel box full of stars,” NASA says, in the central bulge of the Milky Way, with more plentiful bright blue stars in the foreground.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, now 3.79 billion miles from Earth, snapped these images of Kuiper Belt Objects. They’re the furthest images ever taken away from Earth.
In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for signatures of technologically-advanced civilizations.
Austrian researches have started a three-week simulated mission to Mars in Oman's barren desert.
Scientists have been hard at work trying to determine the densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, and it looks like water is abundant in the TRAPPIST system.
SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy; Elon Musk's Tesla is enroute Mars' orbit.
If successful, Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful working rocket in use, the rocket that could go to Mars.
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing.
Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter.
Thanks to a new study by a team of Spanish researchers, the oldest star in the Milky Way may have finally been discovered.
The simulation consists of 18 simulations covering various scales - each a cubic mock-up of space up to 1 billion light years wide - tracing the evolution of the Universe from just after the Big Bang into the future.
New ALMA telescope observations have uncovered the surprisingly clear chemical "fingerprints" of the complex organic molecules methanol, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate.
Results from the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey include eleven new stellar streams in the Milky Way galaxy.
InSight is the next member of what could be called a fleet of human vehicles destined for Mars. The mission will try to understand the deeper structure of Mars.
