So, while Uranus was the first planet to be "discovered" via telescope in the sense that it was the first "distant light" to be confirmed as a planet with a telescope. The light of Uranus could be ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) orbiting a star like our sun, today's date was an important one. Here's why.

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in our solar system. However, as with all ninth planet research, the new ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of a polar planet.

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling ... one of the authors of the study from MIT. Inspecting the planet further, they found that it is disintegrating at a dramatic ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside ... one of the authors of the study from MIT. Inspecting the planet further, they found that it is disintegrating at a ...