This vast field of mineral towers, called the Lost City, is the oldest known hydrothermal system in the ocean. Scientists believe its extreme conditions mirror the early Earth, offering clues to how ...

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In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers have captured a direct image of GJ504b, a distant exoplanet often referred to as ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe's most dazzling phenomena—the double hot ...

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A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

If this were true, Marius had, in fact, independently discovered the four major moons of Jupiter. Nearly three years later, on December 15, 1612, Marius became the first person to use a telescope ...

While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, a team of astronomers have discovered equally large spots at the planet’s north and south poles that appear and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new, never-before-seen feature in Jupiter's atmosphere. The high-speed jet stream, which spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers ...

The newly discovered moons of Saturn are nothing like ... deputy project scientist on the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter. “They have the fingerprints of events that took place ...

With a radius of nearly 1.1 times that of Jupiter and a mass 2.3 times that of the gas giant, this newly discovered exoplanet, designated TOI-4127 b, takes 56.4 days to orbit its host star TOI ...