Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 20The vernal equinox occurs at 10:46 A.M. EDT, bringing ...
A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.
These cotton candy exoplanets hide behind a haze even the James Webb Space Telescope can't penetrate
"These ultra-low density planets are rare and they defy conventional understanding of how gas giants form, and if explaining how one formed wasn't difficult enough, this system has three!" ...
Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...
Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week ...
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its (very long) way to Jupiter, and will finally arrive at the King of Planets ...
JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ...
Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood ...
ARIEL, A Revolutionary 1,000-Exoplanet Mission, Is Getting Tested – IFLScience Got An Exclusive Look
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There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of ...
The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table.
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