NASA's newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before—a sweeping look at hundreds ...

BYUH students share their understanding of exoplanets and what humanity’s enduring hunt for life outside the solar system ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy | Space ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally changes our understanding of the early ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we explore the Moon. In a recent SETI Live, authors Adam Lesnikowski and Daniel Angerhausen, hosted by Franck Marchis, a Senior Planetary Astronomer at ...

Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world ...

ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's ...