A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

Kepler-725c is roughly 2,472 light years from Earth, circling a G9V star in about 207.5 days. Its path brings it into a ...

Is there life out there? Another method should make it possible to find habitable planets. A super-Earth in the habitable ...

The new calculations, described in a paper published Tuesday (May 20) in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that just 3.8 ...

The newly discovered planet orbits a Sun-like star and might support liquid water, but don’t pack your bags just yet.

On June 9, the most auspicious planet in the universe makes its most promising jump: Jupiter moves into Cancer. The planet of ...

To work out the size of early Jupiter, scientists studied the tilted orbit of two of the planet's tiny moons, which can remain unchanged for billions of years.

The atmosphere itself is… not so fine. It's mostly carbon dioxide, which hey, it's what plants crave, but also a lot of ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day 2023 ...

The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day 2023, showcase the immense power of the solar system's largest planet. Similar to Earth's Northern Lights, Jupiter's auroras are created when ...