This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...
Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...
A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...
An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...
Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...
In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down ...
Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the boundary of our solar system.
I recall as a child lying on the grass at night, gazing up at the stars, and wondering if any of those distant suns had planets orbiting nearby. I was not the first to do so, of course. The question ...
A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...