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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

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

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

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

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

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

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI ... meaning that for every three orbits of the inner planet, the outer planet completes almost exactly two.