For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

SP0136, a colossal planet drifting 20 light years away without a parent star, reveals a universe of extreme phenomena. Its ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

A planet orbiting seven suns sounds like pure science fiction — the kind of system that should collapse into chaos instantly. But astronomers have discovered multi-star systems that stay stable far ...

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?

A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 light-years away ...

A new study reveals a detailed look at what lies beneath the Hawaiian hotspot.

THE year 2025 will be remembered not as an anomaly but as a juridical moment for the climate era: science no longer merely ...

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would ...

February evenings are quietly setting the stage for a wide planetary lineup, visible soon after sunset and stretching across ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...