Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

This article first appeared on Wired.com. On August 10, six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets — Mercury, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you haven’t heard, all the planets are in the sky at the ...

Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...