Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new type of planet beyond our solar system, according to new research. The exoplanet, named ...

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but finding them is incredibly difficult. Unlike ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...