For 15 years, one nearby exoplanet refused to reveal its secrets, its spectrum stubbornly flat, its atmosphere unreadable.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to reconsider something they thought was settled: how big Jupiter actually is. New measurements show the solar system’s largest planet is ...

The curious minds at What If investigate what would happen if you spent five seconds standing on Uranus, revealing cold, wind, and atmospheric hazards.

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Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

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

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Love it or hate it, when Valentine's Day comes around we all find ourselves under pressure to examine our love lives.

Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...

Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...