The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the hidden complexities of exoplanets like never before. For the first ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Experts have unveiled details of SIMP 0136, a floating planetary mass thought to be around 20 light-years away from the Earth ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

“When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said. The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their ...