Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...