NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted bright auroral activity on the most distant planet in our solar system.

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do?

The Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia is unveiling an exciting new interactive space exhibit that brings astronomy to life. Visitors can explore ...

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

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

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

Jennifer Rocca, a project systems engineer for NASA SPHEREx, said their project goal is to map the universe in more than 100 ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

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

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...