"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Earth is not alone, and a stunning new animation created using NASA data beautifully illustrates that point. There may be trillions of other planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way (which itself is ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

APRIL 13, 2023 — An international research team led by UTSA associate professor of astrophysics Thayne Currie has made a breakthrough in accelerating the search for new planets. In a paper slated for ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by ...

Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...