Planet Earth is the jewel of the solar system—the shimmery blue oceans, the verdant green forests, the wispy whimsical cloud formations. Saturn is the only competitor for mo ...

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

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone ...

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

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

"We know from our own solar system that giant planets bring a little bit of chaos ... α Cen's location and path are shown by a yellow star and blue solid line (top row only).

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Despite these extreme traits, however, Uranus remains one of the least understood planets in our solar system, largely because ... the planet its characteristic blue-green hue by absorbing red ...