Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

The Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia is unveiling an exciting new interactive space exhibit that brings astronomy to life. Visitors can explore ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

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

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Jennifer Rocca, a project systems engineer for NASA SPHEREx, said their project goal is to map the universe in more than 100 ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Mars is one of the only other places NASA know life may have existed in the solar system. The Red Planet is the fourth from ...

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