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The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life, according to multiple space agencies. Astronomers have captured ...

A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar system. Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are ...

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets has thus far been limited to ground-based observations of young, self-luminous, Jovian planets. Near-term space- and ground- based facilities ...

These Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...

A new NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other phenomena in photos of the planet Jupiter. Another NASA citizen science ...

It’s not too hot. It’s not too cold. It’s just right. And it’s why that sweet spot in its distance from a star at which a planet can sustain life is called the Goldilocks Zone. “Our sun has this ...