The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Scientists have discovered that alien existence could be hiding in gases on distant planets. New research suggests extraterrestrial beings might exist in gases called methyl halides on faraway worlds.

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 times closer than the Earth does around the sun. WASP-121b is so close to ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

A group of scientists from the University of California, Riverside, has found a new and exciting way to search for alien life ...

These planets are likely rocky planets, rather than gas planets like Jupiter, the scientists said. That will be difficult to pin down with certainty; the angle we see them from Earth means we can ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...