Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior ...

In fact, they’re some of the smallest ones ever found outside our Solar System. What makes it even more interesting? These planets are circling Barnard’s Star, which is just six light-years ...

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“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...