A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission has taken humanity closer than ever to understanding the mysterious dwarf planet, Pluto. In 2015, ...

The breakthrough came using a cutting-edge observational method that detects unseen planets via subtle deviations in their ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

The discovery of a Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting a small red dwarf is urging astronomers to reconsider their theories of ...

A newly discovered gas giant, called TOI-6894b, orbiting a low-mass red dwarf star defies existing models of planet formation ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

Some scientists think they discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system, so far away that it takes around 25 ...

Science teaches us that stars are much larger than planets, but what about large planets that orbit small stars? This is what ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...