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

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

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

Researchers have discovered TIDYE-1b, a young planet only 3 million years old, rapidly orbiting its star. This finding ...

Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies ...

Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of ...

We hear music everywhere we go in the natural world, to the point its consumption is second nature. Maybe the universe is ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

The planet's very existence challenges current theories, as it's difficult for planets to retain thick gaseous atmospheres so close to their stars1.

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

A newly discovered baby exoplanet called IRAS 04125+2902 b is challenging our current understanding of planet formation.

A rare ‘Neptune-sized' planet has been discovered orbiting scorchingly close to its host star - only the fourth planet of its ...