This Earth Day, we reflect on our home planet and look at Earth from space through history.

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

Astronomers at The University of New Mexico have published new research confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic ...

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...

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An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...

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Scientists have spotted a “rogue” planet floating on its own through space. Most of the planets we know are found orbiting as part of a star system, with one or more suns, just like our Earth and the ...

Planet Labs is leveraging its Earth-imaging platform to become a provider of actionable artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics.

Satellite imaging company Planet has announced the development of radio communications systems to support hybrid ...