A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...
"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...
The First Planet Parade of 2026 Is Approaching: Here's How to See It ...
CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...
Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...
It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...