We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Thanks to amateur astronomer Thomas Jacobs of Bellevue, Washington, scientists have found evidence of comets circling a star called KIC 3542116 that's 800 ... by the Kepler Space Telescope in ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

The telescope is funded by the U.S. National Science ... This was unusual because, according to Newtonian physics and Kepler's laws of planetary motion, objects farther from the center of a ...

NASA’s James Webb space telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun. According to an article published by NASA on ...