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Crystal clouds on a distant world may shimmer like sun dogs, hinting at exotic optics shaped by heat, wind, and starlight.

NASA' s Chandra X-ray space telescope has created a three-dimensional map of stars close to the sun that may help astronomers ...

RIT astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. student uses NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to study exoplanet being shrunk ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has ...

The team detected a huge gas giant dwelling in the protoplanetary disk of MP Mus, which had been previously hidden. This ...

Given that Saturn is nearly 100 times more massive than Earth, it seems like a joke to refer to an exoplanet of the same weight as "light." But that's what NASA and the European Space Agency, one ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away.