All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Neptune's elusive auroras have been finally revealed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers scouring through ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

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.

Experts have unveiled details of SIMP 0136, a floating planetary mass thought to be around 20 light-years away from the Earth ...

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 ...

Astronomers have obtained detailed images of two protoplanets forming around the PDS 70 star system, located 370 light-years ...

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