The image contains nearly 6,000 colored dots scattered across the Milky Way. Some mark planets whose existence has been ...

Near the start of this year, a mere month after Inauguration Day, the future of U.S. space exploration was thrown into question. Rumors circulated in D.C., then around the world, about a plan to slash ...

Pasadena, CA (March 25, 2026) — The Planetary Society, the world's largest independent space interest organization, issued the following statement in response to NASA’s ‘Ignition’ event: The Planetary ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sep 18, 2025, 09:28pm EDT Sep 18, 2025, 09:29pm EDT Four ...

It's been 20 years since Pluto lost its status as the ninth planet of the solar system, but we still can't seem to let it go. Reading time 3 minutes Pluto remains one of the great generational divides ...

Learn how Pluto nearly kept its planet status in a proposed 12-planet Solar System as its demotion marks its 20th anniversary. Eight days before Pluto lost its planetary status, it appeared ready to ...

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

Six planets will align in the night sky Saturday into Sunday this weekend, with most visible to the naked eye. NASA says at least one planet is typically visible on any clear night, and two or three ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, according to new research.