New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

Astronomers studying a dim red dwarf star called LHS 1903 have found a four-planet system with an architecture that defies ...

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Artist impression of the planetary system with four planets,around a small red star,called LHS1903. Caption: Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

When we start talking about Earth's origin, there are many theories on the table that have been tossed around for years, with the Big Bang hypothesis often leading the charge. But thanks to the James ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...