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 ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A new ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

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

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.