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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints… of an alien world” on a distant planet orbiting outside the solar system, according to a new report. The scientists ...

While observing a section of space using Nasa’s exoplanet surveying satellite, scientists found a peculiar periodic dip in starlight that tipped them off about the presence of a rocky planet ...

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 ...