The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Korean researchers have uncovered the secret to how planets and comets could form far from a star — considered a mystery until now — by finding the key in a substance named crystalline silicates as ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions into a phase completely unfamiliar under natural conditions on Earth.

Here's how to see the celestial pairing.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from Seoul National University and other international institutions have been able to answer a question that has puzzled scientists for years about ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction in ...

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction.

Webb data explains how heat-formed crystal minerals end up in icy comets by tracking their journey around a young, actively forming star.

The planet HD 189733 b was discovered in 2005, as one of many huge gas worlds snuggled tightly against their suns. It gradually gained popularity for .