The planet is 100 times the size of earth, astronomers estimate. The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life ...

If Planet 9 is real, this observatory has around a 70 to 80 percent chance of finding it, he estimates, adding that it's not a sure thing because there are so many uncertainties.

The outlook isn’t great for the exoplanet HIP 67522 b. Over the next 100 million years, powerful magnetic fields and destructive cosmic radiation will continue eating away at the distant planet ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

New Horizons spacecraft survives trip 1 billion miles beyond Pluto 02:03. It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, discover a new trans-Neptune Object, 2017OF201, potentially discrediting 2016 theory of Planet Nine.

Researchers at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy believe that there is a 99.7% chance of life on K2-18b, a large planet located 700 trillion miles from Earth ...

Scientists find "strongest evidence yet" of life in space 01:04. Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system.. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Plastic may be warming the planet more than we thought Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store carbon. May 14, 2025 ...