When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a cosmic divider, separating ...

The first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star reveals an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones.

Scientists have uncovered one of the few potentially habitable worlds close enough and positioned just right for the next ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.