It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of a mysterious new planet beyond Neptune, shaking up our understanding of the outer reaches ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Neptune is an ice giant, composed primarily of hydrogen, helium, and methane, with a hot, dense fluid of icy materials above a small rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and at least five main rings ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...

Using a newly developed tool to sift through data from the NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a team led by a Penn State astronomer has identified young sub-Neptune planets close to their ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...