An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost planet in our Solar System, but larger than the Earth. It has a radius ...

Observations of WASP-127b, a giant gas exoplanet more than 500 light years from Earth, suggest it has phenomenally high wind speeds ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Using HARPS, Dr Cretignier spotted distinct, periodic shifts in the spectrum of light emitted by host star HD 20794, which he thought could have been caused by the gravitational pull of a nearby ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.