Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...
Sunita Williams' astrological chart illuminates her success as an astronaut, emphasizing traits such as intelligence, ...
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...
Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...