Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

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

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...