Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

A breathtaking new video compresses more than a decade of deep-space observation into a few seconds, revealing the hypnotic ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

An exoplanet, short for extrasolar planet, is any planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, such as Wolf 327b orbiting Wolf 327 in this case. Wolf 327, located approximately 93 light-years away in ...

The crew of an alien spacecraft entering the Solar System, maybe looking for planets bearing alien life, would be struck by ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

The findings in the study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the ...