"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Saturn will align in February Mercury and Saturn will appear closest on4 Best viewing is ...

For decades, astronomers believed that planets couldn’t form in the early universe due to a lack of heavier elements like ...

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

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

For budding astronomers and space experts, telescopes bridge the gap between them and space. To take your love of the planets ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Starting Monday, Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day, you should be able to see another planetary parade in the night sky, this time joined by the crescent moon. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune ...