Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

key volatile molecules often found in the outer solar system and thought to be remnants from the time when the planets were ...

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

What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Overall, the study showed that our solar system fits reasonably well into the team’s peas-in-a-pod category. Some peas-in-a-pod systems also have outer planets like our solar system. Deciding on ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — 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 ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

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 ...