Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new ...

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft beamed back images of what appear to be hearts on the surface of a neighborly planet.

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

Astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a young (20 Myr old) transiting exoplanet and found it to be unusually clear and puffy. By analyzing the planet's atmospheric features, they were able ...

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

Our solar system has 8 planets, ... The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter may actually be an example of the failed formation of a terrestrial planet! Surface features.

How to tell a planet from a star – and one planet from another A lot of planets are currently visible in the night sky. Leah Crane has some great field tips to help you spot them ...

The images come from NASA’s New Horizons probe, which has been closing in on the planet at the outer edge of the solar system, some 2.9 billion miles away from Earth.

The film ‘Wild Wild Space’ interviews Planet co-founders Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler and features Planet’s founding, vision to image the entire earth every day, meteoric growth, and ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI ...