Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Astronomers have observed a rocky planet rapidly disintegrating near its star, trailing a comet-like tail of mineral dust.

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

Scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet of life on another planet beyond Earth's solar system. They made the discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Probing these wacky celestial bodies can help us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own, said study author Thomas Baycroft with the ...