For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.