In 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Act founded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its founding came at an opportune time, and not just because of the Space Race against ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...

What new methods can be used to find long-period exoplanets, or exoplanets with orbits lasting from months to decades? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

What can the galactic habitable zone (GHZ), galactic regions where complex life is hypothesized to be able to evolve, teach scientists about finding the correct stars that could have habitable planets ...

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary family. I’m not talking about reviving Pluto’s status, but about a potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LHS 1903 is a small red M-dwarf star that is cooler and shines less brightly than our Sun. Scientists used telescopes in space and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet parade — mistakenly called a planetary alignment by ...