For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...

It wasn’t until the ‘90s that our astronomical powers advanced enough to confirm the existence of worlds around other stars.

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The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

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