The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Researchers studying mysterious objects at the edge of the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope find origin of ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star ...

While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with ... Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

The scientists made a computer model of the solar nebula—the disk of gas and dust from which the Sun and planets ... the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. When the solar system ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi ... left to inspiring our interest in the stars and planets, rather than teaching us about them … but Frontier ...