The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...
An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Full image, annotation, and caption shown below. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ...
PLATO needs all the solar power it can get to find little, Earth-sized planets. Europe's next planet-hunting spacecraft just spread its "wings" in preparation for launch. PLATO's twin solar panels, ...
A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...