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

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

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

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

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

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

“[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 ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.