Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

In this virtual lesson I suit up in a full astronaut costume and take my students on a playful spacewalk from my living room.

Only a day after Blake Miguez parachuted out of the Louisiana Senate race and into the 5th District Congressional race, he ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysica | Space ...

Earth is surrounded by more than air and a magnetic field. Powerful very low-frequency, or VLF, transmitters built for ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

SpaceX has filed for permission to launch up to 1 million satellites configured as "orbital data centers." These spacecraft would operate in low Earth orbit between ...

Explore the visibility of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in February 2026. Discover observation dates, locations and details based on Space.com and NASA data.