IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b in 3D and what they found sounds like ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

Harvard astronomers have announced the discovery of over 100 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Saturn.

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new research.

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Gas giant WASP-127b has extremely powerful ... and Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre. “It’s a giant planet in a very close, nearly polar orbit around a rapidly rotating star, and these ...

"Usually planet formation is a bottom-up scheme ... The study analyzed a sample of seven gas giant exoplanets whose stellar and planetary chemical properties had already been directly measured ...