According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

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 ...

Mar. 17, 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 system 130 light-years away ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

“The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...