Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... more elliptical orbits around their host planets, Ashton said. Among the regular moons, around 20 are also considered major moons ...

The International Astronomical Union formally recognised all of Saturn’s moons this week. The moons are yet to get names but ...

However, thanks to some serious space detective work, including a powerful new tool called MAROON-X, a team of scientists was ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...