New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...