Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...

To date there are over 5,500 known exoplanets confirmed by NASA, with trillions more predicted ... Even lesser-known are ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...