Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a rare image of a freezing cold planet that orbits a star 60 light-years from ...

The discovery of a Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting a small red dwarf is urging astronomers to reconsider their theories of ...

An ocean world that's teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for ... the atmosphere of a distant planet. That's according to Nikku ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...

The other is to have two observations of the same planet in the optical region of the spectrum that are taken at different times. If these observations are very different, the likely explanation ...