The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly captured images of carbon dioxide in planets beyond our ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Daniel Lawler The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...