The largest survey of exoplanets using an observatory atop Maunakea on the Big Island confirms a long-predicted relationship between planetary mass and rotation — putting a new spin on planet ...

Planets with a strong magnetic field can create peculiar environments in their immediate vicinity. Earth’s magnetosphere ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have produced a detailed paired view of Saturn, and the images are doing more than just looking pretty. Taken weeks apart, the two ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

AMES, Iowa – Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...