Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Other dwarf planets in the region have been discovered ... detailed views of the former planet. Images showed the scarred, mountainous surface of a planet known to be half the width of the United ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Convection currents have also been observed by NASA's New Horizons mission on the dwarf planet Pluto ... ago violent impacts — Photos of Venus, the mysterious planet next door ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have provided the strongest indications yet of potential life beyond our solar ...

NASA released some striking new images on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a white dwarf star in the middle. Built by Lockheed Martin ...

A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of strange emissions from the nebula. The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell ...

NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI The research may also have applications in the study of Pluto; images of the dwarf planet taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 revealed polygonal patterns on the ...

On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 35 years in space. Can it still hold its own and prove ...

In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded ... this supernova will not endanger our planet. Right now, the white dwarfs are leisurely ...

In an era of rovers exploring Mars and space-based telescopes taking dazzling pictures of ... solar system, the planets (except for oddball Pluto, recently demoted to a dwarf planet) trace nifty ...