"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

While our solar system is a fascinating place on its own, exoplanets are even more of a mystery. And one exoplanet in ...

There was a ninth planet out there, somewhere, lurking in the fringes of the solar system. Astronomers would spend decades searching in vain for the missing planet. But then, success: by a 24-year ...

NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find could change how we understand our solar system and the universe itself. Is ...