In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere estimates.
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 ...
Astronomers on Tuesday announced their observations of distinct winds in separate layers circulating on the planet named WASP ...
Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.