This updated version of "the Pale Blue Dot," made for the photo's 30th anniversary in 2020, uses modern image-processing software and techniques to ...

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Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

"Fasten Your Space Belts" could be part of a spaceflight one-two punch today. SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today, during a nearly 3.5-hour window that ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in planetary science, revealing the complex weather of a distant gas giant with ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Learn how the ATLAS 3D model was meticulously designed and what challenges were faced in replicating its complex structure.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...