Using data from Hubble and Spitzer, an international team has discovered two new waterworlds in one system.
Hot Jupiters are giant exoplanets – even more massive than Jupiter – but they orbit closer to their star than…
We’ve written often about how pareidolia -- the human tendency to see faces or other features in random images --…
The Milky Way galaxy is our home, and yet in some ways, it is the least understood galaxy. One of…
Jupiter is notorious for capturing objects that venture too close to the gas giant and its enormous pull of gravity.…
The recent discovery of a very young gas giant could offer clues about how "Hot Jupiters" form and whether or…
NASA has just released a mosaic of the California Nebula, which was created from the final images snapped by the…
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of its life. Its mission was to study objects in the infrared,…
Using the SOFIA telescope, a team of NASA astronomers have conducted the most detailed survey of the interior of the…
A new study led by Princeton researchers has confirmed that in the long run, hot Jupiters are destined to be…