Astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in space exploration by discovering over 6,000 planets outside our solar ...

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

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed auroras warming the rogue planet’s upper atmosphere.

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than ...

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

What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

WISPIT 2b was detected as part of a five-year observational research project during which the international team sought to establish whether wide orbit gas giant planets were more common around ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in025. Billions more are waiting to be ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

There’s a rule of thumb that can come in handy when you hear about new planet discoveries from the Kepler space mission. If they’re talking about a handful of new worlds orbiting distant stars, it’s ...