There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect ...

In 2023, calculations from Siraj revealed that there could be room for up to five Earth-like, rocky planets to hide in the ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

“Overall, our findings challenge the conventional classification of Uranus and Neptune as ’ice giants’ and underscore the ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...