A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is hidden in our solar system.

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

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 ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Microlensing allows astronomers such as Buckley to find Earth-sized planets and determine ... there are any signs of life outside the solar system. “Our Milky Way Galaxy is full of dust.

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

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 ... Mar. 13, 2025 — Water once existed ...

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system that ... The planetary system also shares similarities with the outer regions of our solar system. HIP 99770 b receives ...

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the ... suggest planets in a system 130 light-years away likely built up solid cores before ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.