Our Solar System is home to eight extraordinary planets, each with its own unique features, mysteries, and beauty. This cosmic journey takes you from the Sun-scorched surface of Mercury to the icy ...

WASHINGTON: Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

In a groundbreaking study, a new discovery about the exoplanet HIP 67522b has provided scientists with an unprecedented ...

The inner planet, YSES-1b, offered up other surprises: While the whole planetary system is young, at 16.7 million years old, it is too old to find signs of the planet-forming disk around the host ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk of material ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, so have the conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant planets. As Earth’s magnetic field ...

The disk holds the planet-building blocks of its atmosphere, silicates, which fuel its growth. YSES-1 c, however, is already enormous, around 14 times as massive as Jupiter.

Heavy rains over the weekend that pushed the Guadalupe River in Texas’ Hill Country to its second-highest height on record ...