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

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

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

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 ...

The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

That's according to new data from Mitsubishi Electric, a leading heating and cooling manufacturer that was actually the first ...

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 ... Combination of Cosmic ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. Consecutive losses of the Starship rocket suggest that the ...

Eight minutes later, the Sun would be ripped apart, followed by the rest of the planets in the solar system and onwards, a wave of destruction caused by a rent in the fabric of space itself ...

Solar terrestrial planets refer to the first four planets in the solar system, i.e, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Out of these, Mercury is the smallest whereas Venus is the hottest. Earth, however, ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...