Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

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 ... Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have ...

The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet that may lurk in the far ...

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 ...