New data from the James Webb telescope reveals that Pluto's strange atmospheric haze controls its climate, surprising ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary ...

"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

A formation known as the "Dumbbell Nebula" – nicknamed because it looks like a dumbbell – should be easy to spot throughout ...

K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star and is much larger than Earth. It’s known as a sub-Neptune planet, which means it’s rich in ...

A gas giant the size of Jupiter, yet even heavier and denser, has captured the attention of astronomers across the world.

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly circular 23-day orbit around its star, receiving about the same amount of stellar ...