The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

Young planets are often too small to be detected directly, and many protoplanetary disks are too distant to be observed in detail. Instead, astronomers look for indirect evidence, such as rings, gaps, ...

A mysterious new world has been spotted at the galaxy's edge, sparking excitement among astronomers, and its all thanks to a ...

New Orleans trumpeter and composer Steve Lands reinterprets Gustav Holst's "The Planets" on his album "Rearranging the ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

New research shows there is at least a 40% chance of the existence of Planet Nine, but scientists are still looking for ...

In a grand finale of planet-spotting prowess, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has tracked down 219 new planets outside our solar system — including 10 that could have the right qualifications for ...

Astronomers have found a new planet that's mostly made of iron NASA's TESS telescope finds a small, iron-rich planet which could help explain the origins of Mercury, the innermost planet in our ...

The explosion of new planet discoveries is mostly due to Kepler, which identified these eight. But it takes more than spotting them to be sure they're planets. From there, ...