The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces that ripple through ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

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The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

Starting off with astronomical seasons, this system bases itself on the Solstices and Equinoxes that occur each year as Earth ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.