The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

Oct. 22, 2024 — NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational ... Keeping Mold ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

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