Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI ...

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, ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There’s a ...

In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...

Researchers say the diet could help avoid 15 million premature deaths annually. Changing how the world eats could reduce premature deaths, save trillions of dollars and slow the impacts of climate ...