Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting method" was how Webb indirectly detected CO 2 in the atmosphere ...

This is called an Einstein Ring, named after scientist Albert Einstein, who predicted this effect in his Theory of Relativity ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the minds of academics and dreamers alike. As far back as the 16th century, ...

Saturn will temporarily lose its iconic look from our viewpoint on Earth, appearing as a pale, yellow sphere without its swirling rings shrouding the gas giant. The billions of rocky and icy ...

Looking at the NASA eclipse map above, the curved yellow lines show the percentage of the Sun that will be covered at peak eclipse in each location, while green lines mark when that maximum ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an observation of Neptune's lights remained elusive for decades Margherita ...

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for extraterrestrial life.