The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...
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 ...
Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...