In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date, 5,799 exoplanets ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of ...

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

Moons ought to be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy in a glorious profusion. Here in the Solar System, moons ...

WASP-107 b Puffs sounded like soft marshmallows, but they were the name for a rare group of young planets that were as light ...

Using the dual perspectives of Hubble and New Horizons, scientists have gained new insights into Uranus' atmospheric ...

Scientists have discovered that the Great Red Spot of Jupiter undergoes a rhythmic 90-day cycle of changes, offering fresh insights into the complex behavior of planetary atmospheres.

These extremely low density cotton candy exoplanets—known as super-puffs —are a big puzzle for astronomers trying to figure ...

When the Voyager missions traveled to the outer solar system to study the giant planets there, they found the moons that orbited them to be more diverse, and at least as interesting. As NASA prepares ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...

SpaceX’s creative method of rocket recovery makes this recent test a significant step towards making space travel more ...