A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

This week sees a special stargazing event, as as up to six planets will be visible in a line in the night sky.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...