Greensboro Science Center's Starry Safari offers stargazing with a deep space telescope on Fridays and solar viewing on weekdays.

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, but they are absent from the solar system. They have atmospheres that ...

The HR 8799 system, a mere 30 million years old, is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in exoplanets within the HR 8799 system, 130 light-years away. This ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...