By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

An eerie blue hand seems to be reaching out across the universe in a recently released image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th ...

NASA has announced a new milestone in the hunt for planets around other star systems, known as "exoplanets". Humanity has ...

Millisecond pulsar binaries may produce the excess 511 keV photons seen in the galaxy. These systems could expose hidden pulsars and even exoplanets. Many astrophysicists devote their work to tracing ...

Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ of Toronto/M.Durant et al; INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo/ S.Orlando & NASA/CXC/SAO/A.Jubett et al. The Vela Pulsar is the aftermath of a star that collapsed. The ...

Discover how astronomers use stellar parallax to navigate spacecraft in deep space without relying on Earth-based beacons.

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

An explosive new space image reveals a star's inner conflict hours before it blew up. The picture shows the inside of a star turning on itself in the short time before it spectacularly exploded, ...

Mysteriously powerful cosmic winds around neutron star may be 'game-changer' for understanding monster black holes ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. This image provided by NASA on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, shows a scene of ...