The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...