Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why Jupiter is called a “failed star.” Made of star-like material, it lacks the mass to ignite ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Explore how mass spectrometry is transforming planetary science – delivering key data from space missions to Titan, Venus and ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

TOI-4465 b is a gas giant exoplanet about 25 per cent larger than Jupiter – the largest planet in our Solar System – and nearly six times its mass. The new planet has a temperature range of 375 to 478 ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...