Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is really like. But our blue-skied, temperate planet is the extreme exception when ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.