The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Researchers have discovered four Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star using advanced telescopes. These planets ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Read At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

But what is a solar eclipse? Think of it as a supercharged new moon, one that occurs when the moon passes between the sun the ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...