A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...
The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION: Joseph ...
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.
Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...
Things are much bigger outside the solar system.
A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...
The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding ...
NASA and SpaceX are preparing to explore a metal world — a place unlike any planet humanity has ever visited. This object may ...
In Musk’s telling, the step beyond data centers orbiting Earth is even larger computers in deep space. And furthermore, Musk ...
General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.” ...