For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds.

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a striking milestone: more than 6,000 known ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, Australian astronomers have identified a potential Earth-like planet candidate located approximately 150 light-years away from our home planet. This finding, reported by ...

An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...