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

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

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Most Planets Have No Known Date of First Observation . Before we begin, I want you to imagine a clear night sky you've ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 30-million-year-old “planet factory” during its investigations, which fundamentally altered our knowledge about planetary origin. Researchers are gaining ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Although no signals were found, the research highlighted promising ... NASA's Curiosity rover is providing new insights into how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable planet, abundant in ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...