Since 2019, NASA has offered the public free access to an enormous trove of starlight data collected by its Transiting ...
To date, humanity has discovered over 6,200 confirmed exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, according to NASA's ...
For four years, NASA’s planet-hunting telescope photographed the light of 2.2 million stars. The data sat in public archives, ...
Astronomers have unleashed a powerful new AI tool called RAVEN to comb through data from NASA’s TESS mission—and it’s paying ...
Epsilon Indi Ab was first discovered in 2002 and was officially confirmed to exist in 2018. It is considered an exoplanet, ...
Nasa’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new evidence of chemical activity on Mars that could suggest the planet was once habitable. Samples of mudstones from the Jezero crater – an ancient basin long ...
Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering ...
Here's why these new results are so encouraging for scientists.
Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. The main reason for Pluto's demotion is that it's not able to "clear its orbit of debris." Other ...