Jupiter reaches opposition, making it brighter and larger than at any other time this year. A rare transit of its moon ...

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Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...

The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

That's exactly what was seen in a recent image from NASA's and the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope, as ...

If Ivar, Em and Quent want to know all about the sun, moon, stars and planets that comprise the universe, who else should they consult but the learned Galileo Smith, a self-proclaimed astronomy buff ...