These brown dwarfs, intermediate objects between giant planets and stars, form a rare binary system. The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, was detected through the gravitational disturbances it induces ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

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

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, surpassing the previous record-holder, Epsilon Indi Ab, which stands at around 35 ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

these planets’ orbits are roughly on the same plane as the binary stars’ orbit around each other. Before the recent discovery, scientists had only theorized the existence of such a system with ...

🌍 A 3D solar system simulation built with Three.js. Includes animated orbits, textured planets and moons, interactive camera controls, and a space background using a cube map.

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006 ... Pluto checks the first two boxes, it orbits the sun and is round, but it fails the third.