NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

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NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

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Unlike earlier studies, which often examined chemistry and atmospheric motion separately, the new simulations combined both.

With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It’s eleven times larger than Earth, so big in fact that its gravitational forces are thought to be ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...