Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Can we really reach another solar system? This video explores how humanity might colonize Proxima Centauri B, our closest potentially habitable exoplanet, located in the Alpha Centauri system. We ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, surpassing the previous record-holder, Epsilon Indi Ab, which stands at around 35 ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and ... common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study. Credi ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

MORE: Exoplanet discovered in 2020 has the coldest ... have been working together to investigate distant objects in our solar system for more than a year and a half. The two bring very different ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet discovery space and investigating the nature of dark energy. However, since those ...