The likely site of a new “gas giant planet” up to several times the mass of Jupiter, has been discovered by an international ...

It’s been 18 years since Pluto’s celestial status was called into question—yet the matter seems far from settled. We asked experts from both sides to make their case. This 2015 NASA image of ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

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The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has ...

A small red dwarf star, TOI-6894, is defying astronomers' expectations by having a gas giant planet in its orbit.

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural Sciences have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system. The team has named the celestial ...