Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

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

One is that the divide was caused by some unknown process within the planet's interior. The other is that a massive collision with a moon-size object or multiple smaller space rocks reshaped the ...

While it was making those observations, there were a myriad of background stars that also had ... candidates hiding in the data. As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open ...

meaning one side of the planet always faces its star, while the other side always faces out into space. One side of the planet therefore gets hotter than the other, and the temperature difference ...

Royal Astronomy Society This week sees a special event for stargazers, as there will be a planet parade in the skies. Four planets plus the moon will be visible in a line, making this a great ...