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The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life ...

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago. He ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

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Its three units, which are designed for students in 3rd through 8th grade, are available for free at planets-stem.org.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

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A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, literally and figuratively. The extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," designated ...

Scientists believe the moon was formed from the debris of a collision between Earth and the planet Theia, which was likely ...