The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth approach on Dec. 19, offering astronomers a rare chance to study a visitor from beyond the solar system ...
Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth. Since then, over 6,000 confirmed exoplanets ...
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...