So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
Imagine you are floating in the vastness of space, looking down at Earth. Suddenly, a dark shadow begins to creep across the ...
Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...
Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...
GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...
Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.