"It looks like a gigantic and magnetic storm cell with temperatures of 10,000 degrees Celsius, lightning everywhere and winds blowing so fast they would go around Earth in a second."
The planet, named GJ 9827d, is about twice Earth's diameter, and it's the smallest exoplanet found to have water vapor in its atmosphere, according to a new study.
A private company operating the first United States moon landing attempt in more than 50 years has admitted there is "no chance" of its spacecraft making a soft landing.
From a barnacle-encrusted cylinder found on a remote beach to an ominous shard of metal discovered on farmland, space junk has turned up in unusual spots.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that's causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.
The booster had sent the rocketship toward space, but communication was lost eight minutes after liftoff from South Texas and SpaceX declared that the vehicle had failed.
A haunting "face" on Jupiter and a ghostly, skeletal hand-shaped nebula are just a couple of creepy celestial features recently spotted by NASA missions.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is continuing to explore the red planet, documenting everything it comes across with a high-quality navigational camera that continues to capture sights never before seen by humans.
Tonight's harvest supermoon will be about 22,600 kilometres closer to Earth than usual, making it appear about 5 per cent larger and 13 per cent brighter than the average full moon.
Scientists estimate the capsule holds at least a cup of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroid known as Bennu, but won't know for sure until the container is opened
India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon.