Astronomers have identified two giant planets forming within the disc of a young star. The observation offers a rare glimpse ...

Hot Jupiters rank among the strangest planets astronomers have ever found. They are gas giants as massive as Jupiter, yet they race around their stars in just a few days. Since the first such world ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

Asteroid 16 Psyche has puzzled scientists for more than 200 years. Now, new research suggests that its large craters could ...

A hazy, ultra-light “super-puff” planet, Kepler-51d, is hiding its secrets and challenging how scientists understand planet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression shows the "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903. - ESA An exoplanetary system about 116 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist impression of the planetary system with four planets,around a small red star,called LHS1903. Caption: Astronomers have long ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

Scientists observe a dramatic collision between two planets, offering insights into the formation of Earth's Moon 4.5 billion ...

NEW YORK (CNN) — An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the ...