"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

This week sees a special stargazing event, as as up to six planets will be visible in a line in the night sky.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...