The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...