Scientists have confirmed the existence of over 6,100 planets beyond the Solar System in the Milky Way. Something that has ...

Astronomers observe rings forming around icy celestial body Chiron - Nation and World News | Hawaii Tribune-Herald ...

A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

( Nanowerk News) The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even Earth—is older than the disk’s star itself, offering breakthrough ...

The newly identified world, named TOI-4507 b, is located around 578 light-years away and orbits a remarkably young star estimated to be only 700 million years old. Despite its enormous size, this ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

“Overall, our findings challenge the conventional classification of Uranus and Neptune as ’ice giants’ and underscore the ...