One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

“Mars, can you please clean up your Legos?” “Jupiter, finish your peas.” “Don’t pull the cat’s tail, Mercury!” ...

Volunteers with NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have essentially doubled the known number of brown dwarfs. Roughly ...

The extended mission will continue until the spacecraft dies. Though Juno will eventually fall toward Jupiter as its ...

A giant planet was supposed to have the place to itself. Instead, in a star system 190 light-years away, a hot Jupiter shares ...

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby companions — is ...

Scientists have discovered a hot Jupiter and a mini-Neptune orbiting unusually close together, challenging existing theories ...

NASA's Juno mission made a close pass of Jupiter's moon Thebe on May 1, 2026. While about 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) away ...

Now, MIT scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to get a glimpse into the atmosphere of the mini-Neptune ...

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapour, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere of a ...

MIT astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a rare "planetary odd couple", a hot Jupiter and a ...