The researchers discovered the candidate world while examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM)- Several planets will line up shortly after sunset, on February 28, during a planetary alignment. Six ...

Relatedly, astronomers may have just pushed the upper size limit of what counts as a planet.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

In the latest scientific discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope shocks space enthusiasts by revealing an unusual object that ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

Last year, the night sky provided us with not one but two beautiful planetary parades. The snag for the six-planet parade of August is that it happened before dawn. Very inconsiderate for those of us ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...