The “most vocal” Pluto advocate has been the planetary scientist Alan Stern. “Science isn’t about voting,” he said in 2016 of ...

How and why do Jupiter-sized exoplanets orbit so close to their stars, also called short-period exoplanets? This is what a ...

Approximately 190 light-years from Earth, two planets circle the star TOI-1130 in a setup astronomers rarely see. One is a ...

Spread the loveIn a remarkable update that has captured the world’s attention, NASA announced that Jupiter now boasts 101 officially recognized moons as of March 2026. This dramatic increase in the ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

Scientists discovered a mini-Neptune with a heavy atmosphere, revealing new clues about how planets migrate through young ...

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

With the Flower Moon fading from view this weekend, darker skies are returning just in time for a planetary show featuring ...

The extended mission will continue until the spacecraft dies. Though Juno will eventually fall toward Jupiter as its ...

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds ...

This is the first time astronomers have shown that mini-Neptunes can form beyond a star’s ‘frost line’ (the minimum distance ...