The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

From ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Don’t Look Up’, nothing seems to bring ...

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 ... Combination of Cosmic Processes ...

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

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

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

The planet is 78.5 times Earth’s mass and 6.41 times its radius—fitting into the rare “sub-Saturn” class absent in our solar system. Orbiting an F-type star in a binary system with a ...

This dazzling planet, which dominated the evening sky from ... You can find him on Twitter and YouTube tracking lunar and solar eclipses, meteor showers and more. To find out Joe's latest project ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth. A super-Earth that could explain the universe's mysterious lack of certain ...

All distances are average and approximate, as it’s difficult to be accurate with such large distances. Planets are also at different distances from each other depending on where they are in orbit at a ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

Each of the planets ... to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system The planets orbit their red dwarf star at extremely close distances A new discovery in exoplanetary science has revealed four small ...