With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully explore ...

The team found very clear evidence of sulfur in the third planet in the system, HR 8799 c, although they believe it is likely present on all three inner planets. They also found that the planets were ...

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring here." ...

Jupiter has just been put on a cosmic diet. New measurements led by an Israeli team show that the giant planet’s diameter is ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The JWST captured a massive ...

What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of ...