Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth. The best candidate yet for the elusive Planet Nine has been spotted in two ...

PUNCH’s vibrant first images reveal the solar wind in a whole new light — literally. This ambitious NASA mission is set to ...

But instead of searching for a planet’s direct light ... The results allowed for a first-of-its-kind systemic study of the 3D structures of multiple protoplanet disks. The disks the team ...

But do other planets have seasonal patterns ... For instance, Mercury has no tilt, so "there's almost no seasonal change at all," Byrne said. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Uranus has ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft now has 24 of its 26 cameras installed, which once launched will be used to hunt for terrestrial planets ... that keeps all cameras firmly pointed ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified a single, slow-moving infrared object that checks all the right boxes for it being the long-theorized ninth planet lurking beyond Neptune. The hunt for ...

“As the days pass and the planet moves around the Sun, SPHEREx’s field of view shifts as well so that after six months, the observatory will have looked out into space in every direction.

"The Last of Us" production designer recreated the game's iconic museum and space capsule that Ellie and Joel explore during ...

They're hard to spot with current technology, but the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ... most (if not all of them) are frozen, icy, empty, and uninhabitable. Rogue planets aren ...

Biomass is carrying the first P-band synthetic aperture radar in space. You can think of it like an MRI machine designed to provide 3D maps of the planet's ... and that all its systems are working ...