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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Much as our sun cycles through periods of heightened ... low-mass stars put out different kinds of radiation than larger stars. The planets around these stars also tend to have greater core ...

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.

Evidence suggests that Planet 9 is still smaller than Neptune and orbits the sun about 20 times farther, on average, than the eighth planet. Ironically, Brown played a major role in Pluto ...

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 ...