Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

A live performance of Johann Strauss II’s iconic waltz Blue Danube will be broadcast into deep space on May 31, marking both ...

Pluto was long considered the ninth planet of the solar system, but changes to the definition of planet got it kicked out of ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

our solar system's smallest gas planet. To ascertain the chemical composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere, astronomers analyze the light from its host star as the planet passes in front of it ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... of doing more than inferring the atmospheric composition of exoplanets from measurements of starlight ...

Furthermore, these findings demonstrate Webb's capability to directly analyse the chemical composition of exoplanet ... to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating ...