Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

NASA's Pandora satellite lifted off on January 11, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

NASA’s Pandora satellite has launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to study alien planet atmospheres, helping scientists ...

Pandora, a satellite developed by the University of Arizona, is set for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from ...

This year, the number of NASA-tracked confirmed worlds discovered beyond our solar system surpassed 6,000, and several thousand more await confirmation. The growing tally reflects how dramatically ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...

Exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b, orbiting a pulsar, possesses an unprecedented helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere, characterized by molecular carbon (C3 and C2) and soot clouds, a composition unlike any ...

Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy. "I remember after we got the data down, our collective reaction was 'What the ...