Only a few human beings have even made it to the moon, much less other planets or out beyond the solar system, but a part of us has; two parts, to be exact. The NASA Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes ...

Four small rocky planets detected in orbit around Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to our solar system, are seen in this illustration ... If it’s too far, it would freeze. It turns out, ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in ...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to ... method to find out if a planet ...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

Astronomers have for the first time identified oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System ... composition of atmospheres on planets many light-years away can be ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

Like all of the planets of our Solar System, Jupiter is believed to be roughly ... but there may be a reason for that, as we’ll find out later. Can you walk on Jupiter? In short, basically ...