We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to reach somewhere truly empty? Our first stop is the International Space ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation and evolution of planetary systems." Astronomers have launched a new program ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured evidence of a planet beyond the solar system for the first time since its launch in 2021. The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been ...

What would happen if Earth, Mars, and all the planets in our solar system merged into one massive super-planet? In this video, we explore the science, chaos, and incredible consequences of such a ...

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In this image, light from the star TWA 7 has been subtracted. The potential exoplanet TWA 7 b is the orange circle within the blue debris disk. NASA, ESA, CSA, Anne-Marie Lagrange (CNRS, UGA), Mahdi ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable orbit around Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sunlike star to our solar system ...

The planet is 100 times the size of earth, astronomers estimate. The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life, ...

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the planet actually emits more energy than it receives from the Sun. This subtle ...