A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

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In a remarkable breakthrough, NASA's Voyager spacecraft has ventured beyond the Solar System to reveal a fascinating phenomenon: a searing "wall" of high temperature located outside our cosmic ...