A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail down their respective masses, a new study reports. The Kuiper ...

To do it, he developed a model that simulated an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf. He modeled the orbiting Earth-like planet as the habitable zone devolved, noting how much energy it ...

A planet killer capable of ripping them to pieces has been discovered, say space scientists. Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart.

Astronomers have traced decades-old X-ray emissions from the Helix Nebula to a white dwarf possibly consuming planetary debris. Reports suggest a Jupiter-like planet may have been torn apart by ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding ...

While you might need a telescope to see the rings of Saturn, binoculars will help you see the planets' colors and potentially the moons of Jupiter.