Saturn will rise above the eastern horizon beneath the stars of the constellation Pisces shortly before midnight for viewers ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Earth” located 560 light-years away in the Draco constellation, has left astronomers amazed by its immense size and unexpected composition. Weighing 17 times more than Earth, this rocky giant ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

More The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, putting on a spectacular show just six hours after the moon hits ...