The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science community.

Treats are in store for stargazers at both ends of the short summer nights this June. Evenings belong to Saturn, a beacon in the southwest. Not sure which object is the ringed planet? Look the ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

despite being farther from the sun, Venus is actually hotter than Mercury. This is because Venus does have an incredibly thick blanket of air, which traps so much heat around the planet that its ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ferociously hot ...

Indian scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory have discovered a massive exoplanet, TOI-6038A b, 78 times larger ...

An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than our sun. “But the planet is too close to the host star, closer than the habitable zone … even if the star is about 2,500 degrees cooler ...

Narrator: Further from the Sun, in the outer reaches of the solar system, we find the gas planets. Much larger than the rocky planets, these cosmic giants are accompanied by numerous moons.

The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined A ... in orbital periods between the planets. Mercury, which is closest to the sun, takes about 88 Earth days to complete an orbit ...