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

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — 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 ...

The Kuiper Belt is a region in space beyond the orbit of Neptune that's home to Pluto and most of the known dwarf planets, as well as some comets that are thought to be relics of the solar system ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system ... only 6,000 worlds outside our solar system have been discovered, and ...

Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system.

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...