Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

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Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

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A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way. Breathtaking photos of the total lunar ...