Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

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Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

Astronomers said planet PSR J2322-2650b appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen ...

Scientists had stumbled on the dusty debris from two cosmic crashes. Massive space rocks slammed together to create clouds of ...

Since it has the fewest hours of sunlight compared to the rest of the year, the Winter Solstice is considered the “shortest ...

Let your little ones explore the outer space with this beginner-friendly telescope.