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

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly captured images of carbon dioxide in planets beyond our ...

providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system. A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...