A new moon has emerged in orbit around Uranus, adding another member to the planet's growing celestial family.

Copernicus proved the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, challenging centuries of belief and risking persecution for ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

With only five years left at the complex, NASA is counting on private companies to launch their own orbiting stations with an ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...