The exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b makes an unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

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

Researchers say they found a curious dot on infrared images taken 23 years apart that seems to be moving in a manner consistent with a large, distant planet.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an unprecedented discovery that promises to reshape our ...

Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

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 ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

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