Mars is the planet NASA is actively studying the soil to see if humans could, eventually, habitat on the planet. So far, multiple rovers have been sent to the Red Planet, but no concrete evidence of ...

An artist's interpretation of what Planet Nine might look like. As the search for "Planet Nine" in the outer solar system continues, new research suggests there may be an Earth twin buried deep within ...

Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most ...

Two new studies point to peculiar possibilities for planetary evolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New research suggests ...

The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Perhaps the most intriguing exoplanets found so far are those bigger than our rocky, oceanic Earth but smaller than cold, gas-shrouded Uranus and Neptune. This mysterious class of in-between planets ...

The presence of an enormous Neptune-sized exoplanet 90 light-years from Earth has been confirmed after it was first spotted in 2019. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, confirms the ...

OXON HILL, Md.— A newly discovered exoplanet weighs about the same as Earth — but that’s where the similarities end. Its discovery, reported January 6 at the American Astronomical Society meeting and ...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two research teams have discovered thick layers of high-altitude clouds covering the atmospheres of two relatively nearby exoplanets: a super-Earth and a “warm ...