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

The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

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

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

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

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

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

“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...