Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

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 ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

Live updates from Thursday morning’s SpaceX Starlink 10-61 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

A supply ship has arrived at the International Space Station after a day's delay due to a premature engine shutdown.

The School Committee is looking for a better cost estimate for the scaled-down Andover High School improvement project to present to the community. The committee at its Sept. 4 meeting approved ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

The spacecraft will perform a series of engine burns to adjust its orbit and reach the station for robotic capture and ...

On September 18, 2025, SpaceX successfully launched its 117th Falcon 9 flight of the year, sending another batch of 28 Starlink internet satellites into orbit.

The present sunspot cycle began in 2019, and experts initially forecast a mild peak in 2025. But solar maximum arrived ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...