April 17, 2019 NASA mission finds its first Earth-sized alien planet Seven months after finding its first exoplanet, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found its first Earth-sized planet, as well as a "warm sub-Neptune-sized world."
April 11, 2019 Possible 2nd planet spotted around Proxima Centauri BERKELEY, Calif. — The nearest exoplanet to Earth may have a neighbor.
April 11, 2019 Physicists scramble to understand the extreme crystals hiding inside giant, alien planets Deep in the heart of alien worlds, crystals form under pressures up to 40 million times more intense than the atmospheric pressure on Earth, and as much as 10 times more intense than the pressure in our planet's core.
April 5, 2019 Destroyed ‘past Earth’ reveals our apocalyptic future, study says A terrifying new study may have provided a window into Earth's ultimate fate by looking at a newly discovered dying planet nearly 400 light years away.
April 1, 2019 Starquakes rock alien sun, revealing details of a 'Hot Saturn' A NASA space observatory called TESS has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes.
March 26, 2019 Birth of Neptune's 'Great Dark Spot' captured for first time ever Jupiter may be known for its Great Red Spot, but the Hubble Space Telescope have captured another planetary anomaly in the far outposts on space – the birth of one of Neptune's "Great Dark Spot" storms.
March 22, 2019 Striking NASA picture shows Jupiter's storms in stunning detail NASA has released an incredible image of Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot and swirling storms in the planet’s southern hemisphere.
March 14, 2019 Footprints of forming planets spotted around young star A solar system similar to our own may be taking shape in the Taurus constellation.
March 14, 2019 Dust ring discovered in Mercury's orbit Two dusty discoveries may shake up our understanding of the inner solar system.
March 11, 2019 Evidence for mysterious Planet Nine continues to mount, could be ' solar system's missing link' Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, as two new studies offer support of its existence, even if NASA and space researchers have yet to find it.