Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Imagine the solar system's planets throwing a Bollywood dance party. Each planet has its unique dance move. Mercury moves ...

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 ...

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