Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

In 1781, astronomer William Herschel discovered a new planet. He wanted to name it Georgian Sidus (George’s Star) after King George III, but all of the other planets in the solar system were ...

25 photos of space that could change the way you see our universe and make you feel very small. ... The planets in our solar system are even more fascinating and complex than you may think.

After completing its tour of the solar system in 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 looked back and took a series of parting images – a “family portrait,” it was called – of several planets orbiting ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic ...

This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019, shows a beautiful view of the planet and in particular its rings. The rings aren’t solid, but are rather disks made up of tens of ...

A photo may be worth 1,000 words, but a new depiction of NASA's Kepler mission is worth 1,235 potential alien planets. Created by a devoted mission scientist, the image takes stock of the Kepler ...

In March 2009, the space agency launched the Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery program designed to look for possible life-supporting planets. So far, Kepler has discovered almost 4,500 potential ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...