To catch the Geminids peak, look to the eastern sky all evening on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The meteors will appear near the bright planet Jupiter. With the darkest possible skies, you could see up to 120 ...

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A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The Geminids meteor shower has proven to reliably produce around 120 meteors per hour in a dark sky, and many of them are ...

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Jupiter shines brilliantly in the eastern sky this December as it nears opposition early in 2026, outshining nearby stars and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope finds WASP-121b leaking two long helium tails, offering new insight into atmospheric escape on hot Jupiter exoplanets ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone farther than any other spacecraft in history. Launched in 1977, it is a historic ...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...