Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

Dwarf Planets Learn more about Pluto and other dwarf planets, which are defined as objects that orbit the Sun and are nearly round, but that have not been able to clear their orbit of debris. The ...