No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

Will algorithms designed for interconnected computers hold up if some of the machines are not here on Earth but flying about ...

Dennis’s work has been the subject of three solo exhibitions – UNDERSTUDIES at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, overturns at Swiss ...

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

In the abstract for the paper, the team says, "The possibility of hycean worlds, with planet-wide oceans and ... that more study with the James Webb Space Telescope will help confirm their initial ...

Here’s how it works. Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have already been found. Thanks to rapidly ...

When viewed from space, "the exposed geologic features create an arresting work of abstract art," NASA representatives wrote. Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to ...

Abstract: Space exploration has been on the rise since the 1960s and ... the Mars missions and channel modeling studies of the near-Earth, interstellar, and near-planet links. Studies featuring ...

Getty "The solar system’s distant reaches exhibit ... massive trans-Neptunian body — Planet 9," the study abstract states. "Previous analyses have shown how orbital evolution induced by ...

All this isn’t an entirely abstract exercise ... At the moment, we can only detect such planets using huge telescopes in space to search for those that are similar to Earth in size, temperature ...