When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...

The Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, is heading for Asteroid 16 Psyche in the outer part of the main asteroid belt, but just managed a strategic flyby of Mars.

JWST has revealed a surprising daily cloud cycle on a distant hot Jupiter, giving scientists a clearer look at its atmosphere.

Discovery led by UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. of daily cloud cycle on a hot Jupiter exoplanet provides unique window into its make-up ...

Neptune has a complicated life story, and its moon Nereid might be the only one left standing from the planet’s ...

Ganymede and Europa transit Jupiter tonight, while Io disappears in an occultation. West Coast observers can catch a double ...

North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals weather patterns from how planet WASP-94 A b filters the light of its parent star.

An out-of-this-world weather report from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals how clouds move across a giant planet ...

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