NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary.” No one expected that a world, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, would reveal traits of a super-Venus and change how we see certain ...

This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and could contain significant quantities of diamonds. This discovery challenges our understanding of planetary ...

when Earth and Mars are in conjunction on the same side of the solar system, and transfers to that planet require the least amount of energy.” “It’s like announcing a camping trip on your ...

Astronomers have discovered a new planet in our solar system called ‘Enaiposha’. GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away. This extraordinary celestial body ...

As our cosmic neighbor—the nearest single-star system ... to solar radiation, flares and dense winds to host any living organisms. “Because of this, these sub-Earth size planets probably ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three ...

is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation, emit substantial infrared light, providing scientists ...