The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Several elite U.S. colleges have made deals with President Donald Trump's administration, offering concessions to his ...

The seventh planet in the solar system has an average temperature of just -195°C, unsurprising given it’s 1.8billion miles ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary ...

Astronomers discover Ammonite, a rare icy object beyond Pluto, challenging Planet Nine theory and offering clues to the solar ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon ... when I interned at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. My ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed the discovery of a new “Super Earth” located about 154 light-years away in the northern constellation Lyra. In March 2025, NASA's ...