The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ...

"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a "young" planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but ...

Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

Following the Voyager 2 flyby in August 1986, astronomers have been able to maintain a steady compilation of temperature ...

Astronomers from China and South Korea report the detection of a contact binary system with an extremely low mass ratio of only 0.0356. The newfound system, which received the designation TYC ...

Before you panic about our impending doom, there's good news - a scientist from the University of Murcia has come up with an ...

Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...