"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space ... Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...

For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

The mission will carry Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sanchez above the Karman Line, the imaginary boundary between Earth and space on a 10-minute flight ...

(Think about trying to spot an airplane in a sunlit sky—if the plane appears too close to the Sun, your eyes ... light is an exoplanet named after its star. (In the above image, NASA has placed ...

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

Scientists thought Enaiposha was a typical mini-Neptune—until JWST’s infrared eyes exposed its thick ... and metals—raising new questions about how exoplanets evolve over time.