From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...

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

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, ...

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...

Scientists have identified, at this point, more than 900 exoplanets -- planets that exist outside our solar system, orbiting other stars. We know those planets are out there; but we know that, in ...