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

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

NASA discovers four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star after a century-long search. Find out how this changes the ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

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

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...