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

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery ... which is ...

Aug. 31, 2023 — A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary ...

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 ...

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

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

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

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American ...

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

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 ...