As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

From imaging every point on the planet daily to leveraging AI and hyperspectral data, Ashley unpacks Planet’s mission to make ...

It could also help characterize the number of higher-mass rogue planets and their distribution throughout space. Finally, its data could improve astronomers' understanding of the processes that ...

Planet WASHINGTON — San Francisco-based satellite imaging company Planet has appointed retired U.S. Space Force General John “Jay” Raymond to its board of directors, as the company seeks to ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...

"Actually, one of the specifications for being a planet is, they have enough mass that makes them round," Susana Barros, a senior researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences in ...

The most common type of planet found around Sun-like stars in ... She's especially fond of writing about space and physics, and loves sharing the weird wonders of the universe with anyone who ...

A rogue planet is a world that has been ejected from the planetary system in which it originally formed. Because rogue planets do not orbit a parent star, they are cast adrift into interstellar space.

The Euclid space telescope has discovered seven more rogue planets, shining a light on the dark and lonely worlds floating freely through the universe untethered to any star. Without being bound ...

Now, astronomers are aiming the powerful instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope at protoplanetary disks to try to find early clues about the ways in which planets form, and how these ...