The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

The infinity of the universe hides facts such as the one that has been uncovered in recent days. An object 13 times the size of the planet Jupiter is wandering uncontrollably throu ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...

Scientists are discovering more exoplanets, but they’re still figuring out how these planets form. Jupiter-like exoplanets ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

The dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...