NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to bring surprising discoveries, in this case, a planetary system just 300 light-years from Earth, known as YSES-1 b and YSES-1 c ...

Proposed planetary system classifications suggest ours is the rarest. An artist's impression of the TRAPPIST-1 system, an example of a "similar" system according to a new study.

A planetary scientist compares Arrakis to real planets and analyzes whether life could exist on such a sandy, scorching-hot world. Skip to content. Science Friday. play . ... After all, we know about ...

Planetary alignments involving the planets in our solar system are not exceedingly rare, but the visible lineup of four or five planets in the night sky only occurs every few years, according to NASA.

A team of researchers led by University of Chicago astronomer Rafael Luque analyzed data acquired by both NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet ...

Last week at the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, planetary scientists and astronomers discussed how new machine-learning techniques are changing the way we learn about our ...

Observations made by two telescopes of the Beta Pictoris system, located 63 light-years from Earth, suggest a collision occurred between asteroids about 20 years ago.

The planetary system can be viewed as a toolbox. This planetary system is an exceptional laboratory for a few reasons. First, we can observe K2-360b through both transit measurements, ...