Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s biggest planet. New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft hint that Jupiter is a bit thinner and flatter than previously thought, ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. There’ s six-planet parade on Monday, Aug. 25, just before ...
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.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers will be treated to a rare spectacle on Saturday, ...
A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...