"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along with a brown dwarf, each distantly orbiting stars smaller than the sun. Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Enaiposha orbits a red dwarf star 47 light years away from our own Earth, upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

The aptly named Dwarf 3 will make you think again ... This isn’t a great telescope for shooting planets – even the moon and sun (solar filters are supplied) don’t exactly fill the frame.

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...