Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It’s incomplete but meant to represent the orbital path of the gas giant, and ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

Scientists using JWST have identified WD 1856+534 b—the coldest exoplanet yet—circling a dead star, revealing surprising ...

Astronomers may have found a candidate for Planet Nine. This planet is beyond Neptune. The finding could be the first ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found the coldest exoplanet that is orbiting a dead star, also ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in our solar system. However, as with all ninth planet research, the new ...