A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously unknown world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ...

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...

A new NASA spacecraft has started tracking the particle streams that can make a massive solar flare dangerous while mapping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of WISPIT 2 taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Astronomers have just found a second gas giant recently formed ...