Beyond our solar system, sub-Neptunes - gassy planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune - reign as the most common ...

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

An international study has revealed that super-Earth exoplanets, are significantly more common across the universe than ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system ... solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. Gravity caused the ...

WD 1856+534 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. However, advanced telescopes like Webb could eventually detect habitable planets outside our solar system, according to NASA.