EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...

Olivia Smith, professor in the MSU Department of Horticulture and the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) Program, examined the social and environmental impact of integrated crop-livestock systems ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

The spacecraft, MethaneSAT, was just a year into its mission to provide a clearer picture of planet-warming emissions from ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...