Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...
Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...
"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...
European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...
It's the fifth such life-possible planet outside our solar system revealed in less than a year, but still relatively nearby Earth. WASHINGTON - Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to ...
What can young planets teach astronomers about the formation and evolution of planets throughout the cosmos? This is what two studies published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as ...
On some, whipping winds send a rain of glass flying sideways; others have a core of carbon compressed into diamond. Take a look.