Ingram Planetarium and the Museum of Coastal Carolina are holding family-friendly STEM events in April. The planetarium will ...

The butterflies' arduous pilgrimage is one of the planet's great animal migrations ... The insects employ a navigation system that includes solar orientation using an internal magnetic compass. But ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

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

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

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

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

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...