A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.

For life to even have a tiny chance of forming, two other substances need to be there when a planet’s core is formed, a new ...

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As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

A new study shows that Earth formed under an unusually precise set of chemical conditions that allowed it to retain two ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Between 7 satellite fly-bys and 2 dedicated missions, you'd think our knowledge about Jupiter would be pretty solid, but we're still learning more.