An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

ran a series of model simulations that pointed to the presence of a small planetary companion to the known hot Jupiter. The ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

But unlike Jupiter which is deathly cold ... That's hotter than most stars. It also has an orbital period of just 36 days - making a year on the planet last no more than 1.5days.