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.

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The IAU also estimates that there could be "more than 100" extra dwarf planets waiting to be found in the outer solar system, all of which could have moons. "Just like the giant planet satellites ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

key volatile molecules often found in the outer solar system and thought to be remnants from the time when the planets were forming. Sedna, which is less than half as wide as Pluto, was found to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...