In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its ...
Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an entirely different star sys ...
NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find ...
Astronomers have for the first time identified oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System. The oxygen naturally exists and is not produced by plant life, as occurs on ...
If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably be done via spectroscopy of an earth-like planet's atmosphere as it passes in front of its parent star.
Astronomers on Tuesday announced their observations of distinct winds in separate layers circulating on the planet named WASP ...