The universe is home to trillions of worlds, but not all planets are created equal. Some are scorching enough to melt rock, ...

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a rare alien world that sits in a cosmic “sweet spot” between scorching hot Jupiters and frozen gas giants like Saturn.

A team led by astronomer Julia Seidel used wind speed data from seven ultra-hot Jupiters to produce the first direct ...

So, here's the thing about exoplanets... The more we find, the crazier this whole universe starts to feel. We've got a planet ...

A hot, rocky planet discovered using the Kepler space telescope is the smallest ever found outside our solar system. The new planet, called Kepler-37b, has a radius less than a third the size of Earth ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

A rare meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert proves that our solar system almost had at least one extra planet. In a ...

Astronomers used machine learning to search old NASA data and uncovered more than 10,000 unknown planet candidates hidden ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers claim they have directly measured the magnetic fields of multiple planets beyond our solar system — potentially providing a crucial new tool in the search ...

NASA's new chief wants to reinstate Pluto as a planet. And scientists are on board – as long as you're also okay with having ...