Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...