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Trump’s NASA chief sparked reactions after referencing “making Pluto great again,” a tongue-in-cheek remark that revived the long-running debate over the dwarf planet’s status.

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What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Andy Weir, who also penned The Martian, Amazon ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like rotten eggs.

Exomoons orbiting rogue planets could host liquid water for billions of years, offering potential habitats for life deep in interstellar space.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent an entirely new class of worlds.

These Hugo Award-winning stories might not have had great movies, but how do these literary giants stack up against each other?