New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

If you were able to land on Uranus, which you can’t because it is made of gas, you would be greeted with something that ...

But that doesn't necessarily mean planets are perfect spheres. "We call them round, but they're not really perfectly round, including our own Earth," Amirhossein Bagheri, a planetary science and ...

We currently know of more than 5,800 planets beyond the solar system, but we've only found the tiniest fraction of the exoplanets that astronomers think lie elsewhere in the universe.

For every Solar System like ours, there may be thousands of planets without stars to orbit.

Gravity not only holds us firmly to the ground but also anchors oceans, keeps the atmosphere in place, and binds planets and ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

HIGH above us in the distant reaches of space lie planets of every shape, size and colour. But just how many are in the universe, and what is the nearest planet to Earth?

There may be many Earth-like planets scattered around the universe, a study has suggested, raising the possibility that other habitable worlds are out there—and that life may have evolved on it.

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...