When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Prescribing inhalers offers physicians a chance to impact climate change — but switching to greener options comes with ...

Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their ...

Rogue planets live by their own rules, freely floating through the cosmos without being bound to a star. With no stellar ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change?

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Scientists suggest that dry ice on Mars may move and burrow beneath the surface, creating patterns similar to sandworms from Dune and shedding light on the planet’s changing landscape.