Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...

NASA has confirmed over 5,780 worlds beyond our solar system, called exoplanets. But it's rare to detect a juvenile, ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

SpaceX's Starship megarocket just added another moon mission to its docket. Colorado company Lunar Outpost announced today ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, ...

SpaceX has not announced a projected profile for the next Starship mission, but Musk said shortly after Flight 6 that the ...

Uranus is an oddball among the Solar System’s planets. While most planets’ axis of rotation is perpendicular to their orbital ...

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As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of galaxies from a time when the Universe was less than a billion years ...