Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued.

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

From tentative evidence of habitable planets to the eyebrow-raising suggestion an interstellar comet might not be what it ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

It took three million years for the chemical composition of the planet to be stable after its birth, but elements to help ...

Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

James Webb Telescope tracked weather on rogue planet named SIMP 0136, showing auroras, sand clouds, and temperature changes.

That is what astronomers from Trinity College Dublin have delivered, thanks to the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the satellite could be chillier than the side constantly facing Earth, according ...