Smithsonian Magazine

Could Pluto Once Again Be Considered a Planet? New Remarks From NASA’s Administrator Highlight an Enduring Debate Among Scientists

Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Discover 27 Potential Planets Each Orbiting Two Stars, Just Like the Fictional Tatooine in ‘Star Wars’

The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...

10,000 new planets? Researchers find hidden worlds in NASA telescope data

Scientists say about 10,000 new exoplanet candidates may be hiding in NASA data, after using artificial intelligence to scan ...
Science Daily

Powerful AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds

Astronomers have unleashed a powerful new AI tool called RAVEN to comb through data from NASA’s TESS mission—and it’s paying ...

Dozens of new Star Wars Tatooine-like planets discovered

Dozens of Star Wars Tatooine-like planets discovered in new space survey - There could potentially be thousands of similar ...

AI finds 100+ new planets and 2,000 possible new worlds using NASA's TESS data

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing exoplanet discovery, with a new AI system validating over 100 planets and flagging ...

Close-in planets act as 'bouncers' to create rogue worlds

Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to ...
SpaceNews

Planet and Carbon Mapper to fly SWIR Tanager

In addition to the SWIR Tanager, scheduled to launch as early as 2028, Planet intends to build and launch at least three satellites like Tanager-1, which gathers imagery in hundreds of spectral bands ...