The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted bright auroral activity on the most distant planet in our solar system.

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

Key takeawaysPlanets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...