Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations.

The migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune from closer to wider orbits around the sun occurred 60-100 million ...

Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...

One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

In mid-November 2024, a photograph circulated on social media, allegedly showing three planets perfectly aligned above the ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside ...

Mercury retrograde is a fascinating natural phenomenon that can open your eyes to the inner workings of the solar system.

Researchers have discovered a Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, which orbits its star every 21 hours, placing it in the rare ...