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

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

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

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

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

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

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

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

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 ...