The discovery of a Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting a small red dwarf is urging astronomers to reconsider their theories of ...

NASA's latest discoveries about Jupiter have revealed astonishing new insights into the largest planet in our solar system.

The Webb telescope detects a clear, hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as well as water vapor, on the hot sub-Neptune planet TOI-421 B ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made new discoveries about the origin and atmosphere of a distant ...

Scientists' best explanation for how planets form is called the core accretion theory. The birth of a planetary system begins ...

"Studying the chemistry of ultra hot planets like WASP-121b helps us to understand how gas giant atmospheres work under ...

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated | Space ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...

In an ambitious new study published in Nature Astronomy, planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin from Caltech and physicist Fred C. Adams from the University of Michigan revealed crucial insights about ...

An international team used 20 years of data and photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to study Uranus' atmosphere and ...