Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

Jane Huang, an assistant professor of astronomy, grew up in Chicago, but has no strong feelings on whether New York or her ...

Extrasolar gas giant planets are a necessary stop on the road to finding life elsewhere in the cosmos. Here's why we need to ...

It turns out that a previously unknown world, and its potent gravity, altered Kepler-51d's orbit. Now there are four known ...

A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," ...

NASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...

The youngster is less than 3 million years old, and raises questions about how planets form from the cosmos' dusty ether.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report the discovery of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of ...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a planetary system consisting of three alien worlds orbiting the star ...