A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Astronomers have created the first three-dimensional (3D) map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Astronomers have recently unlocked a new frontier in exoplanet exploration, generating the first 3D map of a distant world.

Would you like to create a perfect replica of the Cassini spacecraft? The Itokawa asteroid? The Gale Crater on Mars? The near and far sides of the lunar surface? If you are among the growing number of ...

When Google announced a ton of new 3D animals, planets, objects and more coming to Search at I/O 2019, little did we know just how useful they would become due to a global pandemic. Thanks to the fact ...

NASA has released new blueprints for spacecraft, as well as planets and asteroids. These are not plans showing how to construct your own Mars rover. Instead, they allow users a chance to print models, ...

The binary system, named GJ 896AB, consists of two red dwarf stars that orbit each other They complete one orbit in 229 years The study will provide an answer to how planets are formed Astronomers ...

NASA has released 21 files that can be used by 3D printers to create models of satellites, probes, planetary formations — even asteroids. The files, which come in the STL (stereolithography) format, ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Google has released a free new version of Google Earth on a totally different computing platform: Virtual Reality (VR). Google imaginatively calls it Google Earth VR. Specifically, for now, this ...

Gas-rich planets such as Jupiter and Saturn grew from a disk of dust and gas which eventually crumpled like a piece of paper under its own gravitational instability -- or so one theory goes. Now a ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...