When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the rapidly advancing field of exoplanet research, it always helps to be one step ahead. A ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a ...

LONDON — Astronomers have for the first time managed to determine the color of a planet outside the solar system, a blue gas giant around 63 light years away. An international team of astronomers ...

Out in the depths of the solar system lie the far-off ice giant planets. Uranus and Neptune are extremely far away at 20 and 30 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, according to NASA, and ...

Astronomers hunting for Earth-like alien worlds could improve their odds by zeroing in on planets that look blue from afar, just like Earth, a new study suggests. Researchers have devised a simple way ...

Images of Uranus and Neptune captured decades ago and showing the planets, respectively, as light green and bright blue orbs have since become enshrined as our collective vision of those distant ...

ALBAWABA - A recent report has revealed the true colors of the planets in our solar system, providing a fresh perspective on said planets. Thanks to robotic spacecraft and advanced space cameras, our ...

NEW YORK — Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a distant alien world. The exoplanet — called HD 189733b — is 63 light-years from Earth and a “deep ...

In 1990, Voyager 1 captured the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken, revealing that from beyond Pluto's orbit, Earth appears as nothing more than a "pale blue dot." In a new study, ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the color of a planet beyond our solar system: It's blue, but not because there's water on its surface. It doesn't even have a "surface." Instead, the ...