"We're expecting on the order of 100,000 transiting ... but likely not for rocky planets." The James Webb Space Telescope is able to study the atmosphere of some nearby habitable-zone planets, but ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect starlight, and nobody does it better than LTT9779b. This world reflects 80 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

The space telescope is peering into our own solar system's future. Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.

Full Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNO079G1i8 Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order Monday that creates stronger protections for immigrants in Washington state and the rights to their data. The executive order comes in ...

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