The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever ...

Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center Trump Wins Supreme Court ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 million times more massive than the sun. The idea is that Sgr A* scarfed down ...

Water Tornadoes Are Surprisingly Good At Modeling Planetary Formation Using a very simple setup, researchers were able to replicate Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

More In a recent study conducted by Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), scientists discovered that the planet, which orbits very close to its star, is shrinking.

A hot Jupiter-like planet, HIP 67522 b, is causing its young solar system to erupt with solar flares, potentially leading to the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away and shrinking it to th… ...

Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over 440 light-years from Earth.

It is possible that a planet once existed in the Solar System but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...