"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...

The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts metallic clouds and rains gems. Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journaland The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers have uncovered new ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a strange disk of gas and dust around an infant star that could challenge current models of planet formation.

What the swirling storms on alien worlds can tell us about the climate on Earth. Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were ...

A NASA scientist has suggested there could be life in the seas of a planet in our Solar System - and it's not out of the question it could still exist there today ...

Despite seeming like Earth's twin, Venus is a strange and mysterious place. Scientists haven't known what made it so odd, but that might have just changed.