Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space opportunity: to name a planet observed by the groundbreaking James Webb Telescope. The IAU is ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Star Gazers is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

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Artist's impression of the newly named exoplanet Isagel (right) that orbits the star Aniara (HD 102956) in the Big Dipper 399 light years from Earth. The planet is about as massive as Jupiter and ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Danny Lewis: Almost 800 million miles away from Earth, the moon Enceladus orbits ...

If you step back in time, thousands of years ago, people knew about the brightest planets pretty much everywhere. These are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. And pretty much every culture knew ...

(NEXSTAR) – The James Webb Space Telescope has the out-of-this-world honor of observing exoplanetary systems – those outside our solar system – but only we humans get the chance to name the systems.