
Graphic: A World of Exoplanet Discoveries
What we know about alien worlds—and what’s coming next
What we know about alien worlds—and what’s coming next
More than a hundred times as distant from the sun as Earth is, the object could be a pristine remnant from the primordial solar system
New Horizons mission finds evidence for cryovolcanism on the distant dwarf planet
First published findings from NASA’s New Horizons mission lay out the dwarf planet’s wildly varying terrain
Warm ocean waters combine with El Niño to turn reefs a stark white
Proposals include a hunt for near-Earth objects, a dive into Venus’s atmosphere and a voyage the metallic core of a protoplanet
Intriguing ridges add to dwarf planet's geologic mysteries
An Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer cooling-pump failure raises questions about the instrument's longevity
Early magnetism could have helped create conditions to support life
Astronomers astounded by the dwarf planet's active geology and atmosphere
Images from the New Horizons probe’s journey to the distant reaches of the solar system
A segmented mirror four or five times wider than Hubble's would peer directly at exoplanets
Nearly 90 percent of temblors in the central U.S. are now caused by water injected into underground wells
Gravity binds together three of the dwarf planet's satellites
The embattled Thirty Meter Telescope project can proceed on Mauna Kea, but only by cutting back astronomy elsewhere on the mountain
Acoustic measurements reveal the energy that radiates from a lightning bolt
An event at the Axial Seamount tests a new deep-sea observing network
The latest images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show a bright spot near the dwarf planet's pole
The chief scientist for the Mercury MESSENGER mission reminisces its findings and upcoming finale
Shaking struck near Kathmandu, where buildings collapsed and thousands are feared dead
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