NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...
Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two decades ago. But a relatively obscure dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt ...
The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have been a fragment of an icy exoplanet, research suggests. When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined ...
Imaging and characterizing Earth-like planets, or exo-Earths, is a key scientific objective of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), as identified by the NASA 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Earth ...