An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...