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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

An international team of astronomers has found that super-Earth exoplanets are far more common across the universe than once ...

Saturn orbits the Sun at roughly 9.69 km/s, maintaining its grand system of rings as it cruises through space. Uranus moves at about 6.81 km/s, spinning on its unique sideways axis as it orbits ...

"This result suggests that in Jupiter-like orbits, most planetary systems may not mirror our Solar System," said co-author Youn Kil Jung of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...