Welcome to SolarBalls, where you can enjoy entertaining space animations that facilitate learning about the solar system and ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

An ultra-short period planet is spiraling toward destruction within 31 million years. Its extreme heat and dense composition reveal a violent past. Our circumstances here on the wondrous, ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system, home to seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star, has long been a target for astronomers ...

Université de Montréal doctoral graduate Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb and her team are unequivocal: TRAPPIST-1 d, the third ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...

The new findings on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, mirror similar results for ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be ...

Boy, how the world has changed over the past 10 years, but perhaps not as profoundly as our understanding of another, more ...

An artist's impression of Sedna, with a hypothetical moon near it and the Sun, like a bright star, in the background (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech). These comets are much faster at completing this orbit ...