NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. The US space agency has added another 65 exoplanets to the online NASA Exoplanet Archive, ...

NASA's first ever 'planetary defence' spacecraft, sent to deflect an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth, has sent its first image back, and it is of a small star field. NASA's Double Asteroid ...

NASA's planetary science program is on the right track. The space agency has met or exceeded many of the goals set by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in the 2013-2022 ...

Nasa has successfully sent a laser signal about 290 million miles, smashing previous records and potentially transforming our exploration of the solar system. The milestone was reached by Nasa’s Deep ...

NASA and SpaceX are set to send a spacecraft to a giant metal asteroid discovered back in the 1800s. The goal? To reveal more about the origins of our solar system. Here's everything you need to know ...

Nasa continues to find worlds that exist far beyond our Solar System. And now, the American space agency has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet number 6,000! An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a ...

NASA has launched a probe into space that will fly to a 'swarm' of asteroids orbiting the sun for the first time to look into the origins of the solar system. The Lucy probe will explore one group of ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the edge of the Solar System and the interstellar medium between the stars ...

Nasa secretly leaked two surprising new pictures of our own solar system. The new pictures were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, Nasa’s new flagship equipment that could allow us to peer back ...

Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has snapped new images of Jupiter’s third largest moon Io, revealing stunning details of the volcanic activity on the moon’s surface. The high-resolution images were taken last ...