This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

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

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star. They were detected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

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

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

Astronomers have discovered WISPIT-2b, the first-ever baby planet responsible for carving gaps in the dusty disk around a newborn star.

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...