Kids and adults can get involved these citizen science experiments from NASA researchers. Each one comes with educational materials that can help you learn about everything from alien planets to ...

Back to Article List How do planets form? NASA wants your help finding out A NASA citizen science project called Disk Detective enlists volunteers to study images of solar systems as they're forming.

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet ...

An international team of astronomers has made a landmark discovery by capturing an image of a giant planet forming within a ...

Hunting down alien planets isn't just for professional astronomers anymore. Thousands of citizen scientists have been poring over data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which has so far detected ...

Astronomy Exoplanets How science gets tested on alien worlds: 'We quickly realize how much there is yet to discover' News By Victoria Corless published April 9, 2025 ...

Nearly a decade after "The Martian," Andy Weir has stranded another science guy in space and escalated the stakes from rescuing one man to saving an entire planet. But is the new novel too didactic?