The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

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James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

Sean Murray says new engine advances in Light No Fire's development creates "…this urge to share it with the [No Man's Sky] ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...