Planets, planets everywhere The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009. By the end of 2017, it had discovered more than 2,500 planets (yellow), about 70 percent of all exoplanets known.

Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

The magnetic field between a white dwarf and the lingering core corpses of orbiting former planets can form a circuit that emits radio waves, which can be picked up by radio telescopes here on Earth.

On a planet with a limited natural color palette, your brain would become attuned to very subtle changes in shade; over time, you would view washed-out colors as more vibrant, and vice versa.

Planets that have been dead for almost a billion years may still be able to "broadcast" their signals in space, according to a new study. According to research published in the Monthly Notices of ...

NASA is preparing for a mission that could see it visit a mysterious, dead planet in deep space. Set for a target date of Jan. 31, 2026, the government space agency is preparing to send a ...

Visitors can get an in-depth look at what lies beyond planet Earth and learn more about the science behind the universe with two new space-themed exhibits open at Discovery Cube Orange County in ...

Space Used to Be Orange!! Season 1 Episode 7 ... At this temperature, it's too hot for electrons and protons to even coalesce into atoms, let alone stars, planets or galaxies.

This older planet, having cooled off over billions of years, would once again radiate a warm, infrared glow. The new study describes a dead star, or white dwarf, called PG 0010+280.

Astronomers found up to 170 so-called rogue exoplanets by looking for young, hot worlds untethered to any stars.