There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Astronomers have used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to measure the temperature and velocity of gas ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary disk might be to blame.

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...