The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet should be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water. A new study argues that ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...