The New Horizons Pluto flyby revealed unexpectedly complex geological features on dwarf planets, prompting further investigation into the diversity within the Kuiper Belt. Several dwarf planets, ...
Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own ...
The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts metallic clouds and rains gems. Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate ...
National Geographic is getting weird tonight—literally. Across six episodes, National Geographic's new show Planet Weird is celebrating some of the planet's most extraordinary wild characters, each ...
Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...
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The discovery of a strange wobbling planet has left astronomers confused but could reveal the secrets of planet formation. The new exoplanet, named TOI-1408 c, is situated about 455 light-years from ...
One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the ...
Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail." NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have ...
Washington, DC – Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world. This new planet, designated HAT-P-1, orbits ...
Recent scientific observations have sparked a flurry of questions and theories about the Red Planet. Anomalies detected over ...
Meet HD 98800, a nearby quadruple‑star system in the constellation Crater. It sits about 150 light‑years away and is 10 million years old.