Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...
Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...
The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...
Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...
The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter", a planet as massive as Jupiter with an orbital period of just a few ...
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What it's like to drive on other planets

In this video I show you what it would be like if the gravity on earth were changed to be the gravity on other planets. Watch what happens to as I try to jump cars with different strengths of gravity.
In the first episode of "The Expanse" (which debuted 10 years ago this weekend), a spaceship makes the biggest meal of changing direction since Austin Powers attempted an [insert very big ...
New research reveals that these colossal worlds likely have highly turbulent, chaotic atmospheres, defying the typical image ...
New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.