The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

Kuiper Belt clues, competing ideas, and how Rubin Observatory could finally reveal the hidden world soon by 2026.

Space startup's CEO talks about putting tens of thousands of satellites in orbit to serve as networked data centers.

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have spotted a world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed lemon, a ...

But that’s nothing compared with PSR J2322-2650b, an object the mass of Jupiter studied recently by the James Webb Space Telescope. This planet’s equatorial diameter is about 38 percent wider than its ...

One side of TOI-561 b is constantly locked towards its star, and the observations showed that this face is very cool for such a closely orbiting planet. A thick atmosphere must be transferring heat ...

The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon atmosphere, something researchers say they've never seen ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest signal yet that a rocky planet outside our solar system is wrapped ...

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

Our Solar System contains tens of thousands of potentially dangerous asteroids that could wipe out an entire city, or worse. In Washington, a NASA office is leading efforts to spot and neutralize ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with extreme heat and a carbon-rich atmosphere, leaving experts unsure how it even formed.