Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric ...
Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...
14 Herculis c one of at least two gas giants – both significantly bigger than Jupiter – that have been observed orbiting a central star in an X-like pattern. Among the nearly 6,000 exoplanets so far ...
Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...
A chunk of rock roughly the size of a city bus is about to skim past our planet, close enough for NASA’s instruments to track ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Temperatures on the planet could make water theoretically possible. Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, ...
A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the ...
Astronomers call it KOI-134, and it's a star located 3,747 light-years away from Earth. Despite the huge distance that separates us, we've known it was there for more than a decade now, ever since the ...