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

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

Archaeologists unearthing a site known as Canhasan 3 Höyük, located within Turkey's Karaman province, have uncovered “the ...

Why do the planets orbit in almost the same plane and direction? It’s not a coincidence—it’s physics at work. In this video, we rewind billions of years to see how a collapsing cloud of gas and dust, ...

Pythagoras created a tuning system where musical notes are related by a perfect 5th. This method was used to turn the orbits ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

The morning sky boasts the two brightest planets. Jupiter rises soon after midnight and is well up in the south-southeast sky ...

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month. It’s what’s known as a planetary parade and it’s the last one of the year.

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

A spectacular “planet parade” (also called an alignment) featuring six planets is visible during August. Here’s when and ...