The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

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Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered complex atmospheric shifts in SIMP 0136, a free-floating ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...