The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Three celestial bodies will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...