We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

our solar system is unique among the stars, because on a small planet inside it, there are life forms that are able to look out into the universe and draw those maps and name the things we see.

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

The next partial solar eclipse is expected to occur on September 21 and be visible in the Southern Hemisphere. Those viewing ...

According to NASA, the partial eclipse will be visible in parts of the Northeastern United States, along with other parts of ...