The search for planets beyond our solar system has taken an exciting leap forward, thanks to advancements in space missions ...

Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun on4. But did it survive? We're about to find out.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history today by flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth’s closest star.