McDowell’s findings invite us to re-examine our assumptions and remind us that even the "final frontier" has some wiggle room ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

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

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

SpaceX brought back to Earth on Friday the four crew members of the private polar Fram2 mission that launched from Kennedy ...

Hubble Space Telescope data show that the time taken for the planet to revolve around its axis is almost half a minute longer ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...