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The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

Astrophysicists have long theorized that there should be planets out there that are, in size, somewhere between Earth and ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...