Recent astronomical discoveries have captivated the world with the revelation of a planet composed entirely of diamonds. This ...

We currently know of more than 5,800 planets beyond the solar system, but we've only found the tiniest fraction of the exoplanets that astronomers think lie elsewhere in the universe.

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

But that doesn't necessarily mean planets are perfect spheres. "We call them round, but they're not really perfectly round, including our own Earth," Amirhossein Bagheri, a planetary science and ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

Astronomers have found planets that are twice as wide as Jupiter and more than 10 times as heavy, but there's a limit to how big planets can get.

Earth was created much faster than we thought: This makes the chance of finding other habitable planets in the Universe more likely Date: June 22, 2023 Source: University of Copenhagen - The ...

Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, ...

Dr. Universe: Besides telescopes and spaceships, how do we really know that there are other planets? – Ia, 12, Montana Dear Ia, I looked through a high-power telescope for the first time in college.

Recently, there has been exciting news in the field of astronomy! Chinese scientists have discovered oxygen on exoplanets, ...