Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...
Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...
Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...
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 that has long been a ...
Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system.